Story: Microsoft's licence to kill

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As those of us in the US have already found out, money talks. The chances of the EC doing anything effective about Microsoft's ruining the EU software market are about zero. In particular, those who are paying attention notice that all attempts to kill the creation of software patents in the EU have eventually been defeated by backdoor politics by the plutocracy, and Microsoft would not have tried this license "solution" if its army of lawyers was worried about fines -- $5 million a day sounds like a lot, unless you remember that Microsoft has over $9 *billion* in cash reserves, and even a year of fines only adds up to $1.8 billion. Computing was a nice field for awhile, but it's ruined now. This is all just end game.

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