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Story: Microsoft makes last-ditch antitrust plea

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How difficult to understand can this be?
Microsoft gained and maintained a huge unfair advantage by business practices and monopoly abuse deemed illegal. So Microsoft must be punished and the equal level playing field must be restored. By opening up the Microsoft formats and protocols (just like DNS, SMTP, SNMP, OpenDocument, etc are) for everyone to use as they see fit (no strings whatsoever attached) Microsoft gets punished and an equal level playing field is restored. If Microsoft refuses to cooperate then their new products will be banned from the market until they do along with a heavy daily fine. In the mean time existing products, services, etc, ect are maintained so there's no sudden death escape route for them. Added bonus, Microsoft has always told that they are the most innovative ever, the best of the best, biggest R&D budget, most desired solution worldwide, blah, blah, blah. So certainly Microsoft shouldn't be afraid of an equal level competition with those that they themselves call inferiour anyway.

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