South Korea Fines Microsoft For Anti-Trust Violations

from the settling-all-the-family's-business dept

South Korea is the latest to find Microsoft guilty of anti-trust violations, fining the company $32 million. Microsoft says they're going to appeal the ruling. Of course, with all the recent stories of Microsoft simply shoveling out cash to make various lawsuits from companies go away, it's almost surprising that they don't just pay the $32 million to make this issue go away as well.
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  1. identicon
    Anarchy_Creator, 7 Dec 2005 @ 2:52am

    ...

    Bill give away money?
    That's unpossible.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Oliver Wendell Jones, 7 Dec 2005 @ 5:29am

    Payment = Guilt

    If Bill pays up the $32 Million, he is admitting that Microsoft was guilty.

    If he spends $32 million bribing government officials and getting them to overturn the ruling, he's not guilty.

    The more not-guilty verdicts against Microsoft, the less likely yet another country is to try and bring charges.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Ivan, 7 Dec 2005 @ 8:49am

    Re: Payment = Guilt

    That's why we live in a free country where you can put what you want in your product and not let the goverment tell you what to do.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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