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I apologise if my post came across as condescending.
>I bet microsoft feels really stupid then, for being fined
>by Brussles $613 million under EU Antitrust laws. (Which
>apparently dont exist)(But Andy the whole point of me
>trying to find it there was anyone who actually knew, was
>to find someone who, like, acctualy knew)
The problem is that you can't explain how the EU actually works in less than 200 words, and if those 200 words also need to convey some interesting subject like M$ being fined, then you will eventually end up with an article like that. Read my Theodor Von Karmann quote in my sig.
>As far as I understand the Microsoft case, (Which is not
>very much), they are being sued for giving something away
>FREE.
That's only part of the case. Microsoft operates in many different businesses, but they use the money from profitable business to fund unprofitable products in other businesses, thereby collapsing the market in that business.
The point is that the EU commision has found M$ to be abusing it's dominant position in operating systems to push it's own bundled products and lockout competing products.
>But Andy said that there were NO european Laws about
>antiTrust., Which at some level must be wrong otherwise
>what are microsoft appealing against
The EU has two legislative means. EU regulations and EU directives. Directives specify a goal and the country will then implement a national version of this directive which achieves these goals. The regulations could be considered the 'EU law' they refer to, because they are binding for every country without national implementation.
So 'EU antitrust Law' is just a set of regulations, right?
Not really... Most legislation on the issue of antitrust have been issued in the shape of directives, so it's different due to national implementations. There are of course EU regulations on that issue as well, but that is mostly of a broader nature.
Microsoft is appealing a 'finding' by the European Commision. The Commision has the right of 'initiative', ie. it initiates legislation, oversees EU programmes and can act on it's own initiative.
Andy
I apologise if my post came across as condescending.
>I bet microsoft feels really stupid then, for being fined
>by Brussles $613 million under EU Antitrust laws. (Which
>apparently dont exist)(But Andy the whole point of me
>trying to find it there was anyone who actually knew, was
>to find someone who, like, acctualy knew)
The problem is that you can't explain how the EU actually works in less than 200 words, and if those 200 words also need to convey some interesting subject like M$ being fined, then you will eventually end up with an article like that. Read my Theodor Von Karmann quote in my sig.
>As far as I understand the Microsoft case, (Which is not
>very much), they are being sued for giving something away
>FREE.
That's only part of the case. Microsoft operates in many different businesses, but they use the money from profitable business to fund unprofitable products in other businesses, thereby collapsing the market in that business.
The point is that the EU commision has found M$ to be abusing it's dominant position in operating systems to push it's own bundled products and lockout competing products.
>But Andy said that there were NO european Laws about
>antiTrust., Which at some level must be wrong otherwise
>what are microsoft appealing against
The EU has two legislative means. EU regulations and EU directives. Directives specify a goal and the country will then implement a national version of this directive which achieves these goals. The regulations could be considered the 'EU law' they refer to, because they are binding for every country without national implementation.
So 'EU antitrust Law' is just a set of regulations, right?
Not really... Most legislation on the issue of antitrust have been issued in the shape of directives, so it's different due to national implementations. There are of course EU regulations on that issue as well, but that is mostly of a broader nature.
Microsoft is appealing a 'finding' by the European Commision. The Commision has the right of 'initiative', ie. it initiates legislation, oversees EU programmes and can act on it's own initiative.
Andy