Microsoft banned from selling word

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: sandorski
they'll likely just settle out of Court and License the Tech like others have.

This...

either that or they'll buy i4i for some "undisclosed sum" which will end up including cash and stocks.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: sandorski
they'll likely just settle out of Court and License the Tech like others have.

This...

either that or they'll buy i4i for some "undisclosed sum" which will end up including cash and stocks.

By undisclosed they mean:

"sir take the deal or leave it. That's $5000 for you to STFU and a promise that we won't send someone to rape your kids and kill your wife"

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: sandorski
they'll likely just settle out of Court and License the Tech like others have.

This...

either that or they'll buy i4i for some "undisclosed sum" which will end up including cash and stocks.

By undisclosed they mean:

"sir take the deal or leave it. That's $5000 for you to STFU and a promise that we won't send someone to rape your kids and kill your wife"

"sir.. take the deal, or we will leave this so tied up in legal proceeding that your grandchildren will be in court and noone will make a dime off anything, and we will invent the next big thing so this can be dropped"

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Drift3r

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: JSt0rm01
at this point they should just make it free. I don't have office installed and just use google docs when I need to work with any of this stuff.

Yes, they should make one of their most profitable products free because jst0rm01 uses google docs for 'this stuff'

If Microsoft were to make Office free it would virtually guarantee them market dominance in the OS world more so then they have already. Hell I bet they probably are drawing up plans to take advantage of this ruling right now if they still have any drive to capitalize on this move.

If they were to do that, the EU Competition Comissioner would charge them $3 billion in fines.

Yea I was thinking that too. If it were 100% free and included with Windows, they'd have more antitrust allegations than ever.