Legal piracy. And what will happen with the billions of dollars collected from Microsoft?
To: AlternateEgo
Do business with socialists and this is what will happen.
2 posted on
03/01/2008 3:31:41 PM PST by
joebuck
To: AlternateEgo
I’ll tell you were it won’t go. It won’t go into the hands of the software companies or the consumers they claim to represent and help from the evil Microsoft.
3 posted on
03/01/2008 3:33:29 PM PST by
aft_lizard
(born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
To: AlternateEgo
What if Microsoft refused to sell in Europe, or demanded a surcharge from European customers to pay off the fines?
4 posted on
03/01/2008 3:35:04 PM PST by
Tax Government
(Government-funded education, for the most part, is content to make morons of us all.)
To: AlternateEgo
What if Microsoft refused to sell in Europe, or demanded a surcharge from European customers to pay off the fines?
5 posted on
03/01/2008 3:35:16 PM PST by
Tax Government
(Government-funded education, for the most part, is content to make morons of us all.)
To: AlternateEgo
Legal piracy. And what will happen with the billions of dollars collected from Microsoft?Probably the same sort of thing the various governmental agencies did with the "Tobacco Settlement" here: Pi$$ it away.
Ban it, tax it (up front), or leave it alone.
Just wait until they start really looting oil companies...one of Hillary's wetter dreams on this side of the pond...
8 posted on
03/01/2008 3:40:21 PM PST by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: AlternateEgo
I’d pay the fines. Who cares, just charge European customers more to foot the bill :-)
This doesn’t hurt Microsoft, it hurts consumers. It’s essentially another tax.
To: AlternateEgo
Just charge Europeans twice as much for the software.
To: AlternateEgo
...what will happen with the billions of dollars collected from Microsoft?Welfare for "youts".
12 posted on
03/01/2008 4:30:16 PM PST by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: AlternateEgo
"Anyone who disputes this should be required to say from what moral authority the EC derives a right to confiscate wealth from a private company. It might have the power, but it does not have the right. "
The big problem with these Socialists entitties that distinguish them from The United States is that they believe that their governmnment has "rights."
19 posted on
03/01/2008 5:44:37 PM PST by
Radix
(There are two types of Tag Lines,: Short snappy ones, and the other kind that seem to go on and)
To: AlternateEgo
Anyone who disputes this should be required to say from what moral authority the EC derives a right to confiscate wealth from a private company. It might have the power, but it does not have the right. Same argument could be made about Big Oil (tm).
21 posted on
03/01/2008 5:49:19 PM PST by
sauropod
(Will Hillary bring the silver back to the Whitehouse, or is this all about finishing up the set?)
To: AlternateEgo
Easy solution.
Just update all the Windows programs in Europe to commit suicide.
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