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  1. Mar 10th, 2006, 02:58 PM #1
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    Muhahah M$ losing money

    Muhahah M$ losing money

    To be exact Microsoft is getting fined €2 million a day!!

    Hmm oh yea i need to add Microsoft abused its dominant market position and the company was fined €497 million. but that was a while ago...
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  2. Mar 10th, 2006, 03:12 PM #2
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    Re: Muhahah M$ losing money

    That's small change for MS. Even Bill Gates by himself could pay that, given that his net worth is approximately $50 billion (US billion).
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  3. Mar 10th, 2006, 04:44 PM #3
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    Re: Muhahah M$ losing money

    Even I could pay that...oh wait, I didn't spot the word "million" in the original post
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  4. Mar 10th, 2006, 05:15 PM #4
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    Re: Muhahah M$ losing money

    Blahahahaha. 2 mil That's how much fuel Paul Allen's yacht burns a day.
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  6. Mar 10th, 2006, 05:19 PM #5
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    Re: Muhahah M$ losing money

    My left butt cheek sheds 2 million dollars' worth of dead flesh each day. And still I don't get payed more.
    I don't live here any more.
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  7. Mar 10th, 2006, 05:27 PM #6
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    Re: Muhahah M$ losing money

    You mean you don't have your left cheek insured?
    "And most of the evils of society can, in fact, be cured through information. We have a society that has been disinformed and based on the disinformation has made irrational choices. And that's what I mean by 'ignorance.' People, who ordinarily might be smart, are deprived of the data by which to make a rational decision, don't have the data to do it."
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    Re: Muhahah M$ losing money

    No, the right one more than covers it.
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    Re: Muhahah M$ losing money

    Microsoft should cut Europe off entirely... I say tonight, send out an update that erases the hard drive of all Windows machines.

    Then the EU Commissioner can explain to all of Europe why his actions caused a continental outage.

    Seriously, Microsoft is a free market capitalist corporation. I thought Western Europe was a free market but I guess not. Nope, the EU is the puppet to IBM, RealNetworks, and Sun.

    You see those three corporations lost the battle in the US, so they carried it on into Europe. Seriously.... I don't want RealPlayer anywhere near my machine. I don't need to buy a computer and have IE hidden from me. I know where to get Firefox and how to install it.

    And IBM is like 3x the size of Microsoft yet no one complains about them?

    Pffftt... if anything Microsoft should sue the EU for billions!
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  11. Mar 11th, 2006, 01:45 PM #9
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    Re: Muhahah M$ losing money

    What free market capitalism are you talking about? That is an idealistic concept. It is not real. There is NO such thing.
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