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Old 19-11-2011, 01:09 PM   #51
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To be fair Japo this would be because of courts and judges not politicians. Then again I don't know about Europe so maybe the politicians did step in and make a new law out of no where, but I would suspect a court case was brought first. Maybe it was the Netscape vs Microsoft one.
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Old 19-11-2011, 02:33 PM   #52
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Courts merely enforce laws written and voted by lawmakers, ideally they can't judge one inch short or long of them. Moreover in the case of EU vs. MS I think it was the Comission that judged the case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...antitrust_case

You may be thinking about this--where the case was initially brought about by the US "Federal Trade Commission", then later by the Justice Department and some states:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

Not that I agree with "anti-trust" laws, to begin with, as old and established as they may be...
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It's a joke, that why would you have to tell them can't they just search for it on Google like everyone else.
I still don't get it... My sense of humor must not be up to standards for this joke. Time for new drivers!
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