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    Threshold   RE: Can We Stop? By Keeir on 3/7/2013 1:47:37 PM
, Rating: 2 That's the lazy capitalist's answer to not competing
with product quality and innovation in the open, undistorted
free market. Only your product gets to talk. You are chosen only
because you are the best. Not because of contracts and legal
crap.  Except in the EU where your product gets to be placed as
a ballot option on the compeditors product.  If Microsoft was
"breaking" a law by requiring volume resellers to not place a
competing product along side thier product then fine. Punish
them appropriately for the damages and move on.  I can't defend
Microsoft from this second fine. They knew the rules and chose
to ignore them. That's stupid, regardless of the sense of the
rules.  But it doesn't change the fact the EU has taken this way
too far. In the article it mentions only 15 million users could
have been af