So What! (Score 0)

Regardless of the EU's decision, M$ will still roll on, doing whatever it pleases. This observation is based upon past events.

2.4 million per day retroactive to Dec 2004 is nothing to M$. This is merely a "cost of doing business" to their accountants. Having a legion of the finest legal swindlers on retainer can have M$ resting and sleeping the sleep of the unaffected.

All this will do is cause M$ to change some minor clauses which are ineffective in the overall and it will continue to steamroll its happy way through whatever

Now, if the EU were to strictly forbid M$ software to be used on the client machines, then there may be some reaction. More bribes; more bribes and more bribes. This is the way of current politics. Hell, this has always been the way of politics.

Can one trust a politician? The answer is obvious by the current ranking on the food-chain list - "0". How come this ranking is a constant all the way back to biblical and pre-biblical days?

The only thing that is consistent and reliable about politicains is their inherent susestibility and acceptance of the infuse of large amounts of lucre.

This will blow over after all parties have been given their condos, Swiss bank accounts and high-priced whores.

Then, there will be a resurgence by the next generation of self-gratifying, supposed do-gooders and the cycle will merely repeat itself.

Sorry for expressing this cynical view, but it really does seem to be a fact of Life. One cannot spank M$ and expect decent results.

Au contraire, M$ is so huge and powerful that it can dictate its own terms

Go Penguin, go!