European Union Punishes Microsoft for Being Better

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 1:52 pm PST • Views: 478

The European Union is very jealous of Microsoft’s success: EU fines Microsoft record $1.3B.

That’s B as in Billion. Maybe the EU should put all that rarefied brainpower of theirs to work and write their own Intel-based operating system and GUI, instead of forcing Microsoft to give away trade secrets to second rate European companies.

Shudder. For one dark second, I imagined what an OS designed by the EU might look like.

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