Bill Gates Gets Raped Big Time

[delphin460]

oh no poor bill will have to bust into his kids piggy bank for loose change to pay this lol

like that figure will worry microsoft

[Lamsey]

It's the negative publicity that will hurt them, not the fine.

Plus the fact that their WMP monopoly will be significantly weakened by the ruling.

[4play]

they are being ordered to release a few of there api's as well. that will make intergrating other stuf into windows and competing operating systems will become more compatible.

THe fine is probably only gonna cover the costs of the 5-7 years that they are gonna drag this out over. and by then they will probably lesease longhorn and they will have to go through this all over again.

[BawA]

i saw it on news it was arround 500 million :smilie4:

[4play]

EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially

[SeK612]

They may have negative publicity but its not going to effect them too much as the way they have their business organized its hard for most people to avoid Microsoft products.

As for media player I don't use it. I use Winamp for music and Real player for movies (although Real player is pretty poor - has an annoying ad message thing and keeps on running an update thing that my machine doesn't like).

[Neo 721]

$613 bout ...£307 thats nothing, they could have faced fines in excess of 3 Trillion because of lack of security on the MS.NET passport service.

[bulio]

atleast he's been sued! :smilie4: :01: :01:

[h121589]

poor Bill Gates :(

[ahctlucabbuS]

Originally posted by h121589@25 March 2004 - 02:21
poor Bill Gates :(
I totally agree! First he manage to earn 400+ billion dollar, and now this. It´s a shame really :'(

[gungrave]

whats he done any way?

[Illuminati]

Originally posted by Barky+25 March 2004 - 21:21--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Barky @ 25 March 2004 - 21:21)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-h121589@25 March 2004 - 02:21
poor Bill Gates :(
I totally agree&#33; First he manage to earn 400+ billion dollar, and now this. It´s a shame really :&#39;( [/b][/quote]
http://members.shaw.ca/wenpigsfly/smileys/violin.gif

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by gungrave@25 March 2004 - 15:31
whats he done any way?
he rigged the software market in his favor (its called Abusing a Monopoly)

[downloader2008]

LOL :lol: This isn&#39;t going to affect him at all.... his Net Worth himself is &#036;8 billion.... I think it is a bit unfair how the government is going against Microsoft for stupid little things. For example, Microsoft got sued because someone from college claims he "stole his idea of having a browser plugin"... I me give me a :censored:ing break&#33; First off, if Microsoft claimed that idea, the judge would immediately throw out the case because it would be an idea that is "too general" for claiming to have to be copied. Second... what happened to AOL, Safari, and Netscape all using browser plugins??? Come on.....

Second, Microsoft got sued for packaging MS IE with every copy of windows.... i mean WTF?&#33; Apple comes with Safari and they dont get sued... geeze... i think its just cuz everyone is jealous because bill gates is something they can never be... also, for everyone who says microsoft is crap... . yeah, it is sometimes, but if mac and linux were just as popular, everyone would be dissing them just as much...

[ahctlucabbuS]

Originally posted by Illuminati+25 March 2004 - 21:36--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Illuminati @ 25 March 2004 - 21:36)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by Barky@25 March 2004 - 21:21
<!--QuoteBegin-h121589@25 March 2004 - 02:21
poor Bill Gates :(
I totally agree&#33; First he manage to earn 400+ billion dollar, and now this. It´s a shame really :&#39;(
http://members.shaw.ca/wenpigsfly/smileys/violin.gif [/b][/quote]
hm yea I´m of course talking in my own countrys currency there, NOT dollars lol :lol:

[gungrave]

Originally posted by downloader2008@25 March 2004 - 21:56
LOL :lol: This isn&#39;t going to affect him at all.... his Net Worth himself is &#036;8 billion.... I think it is a bit unfair how the government is going against Microsoft for stupid little things. For example, Microsoft got sued because someone from college claims he "stole his idea of having a browser plugin"... I me give me a :censored:ing break&#33; First off, if Microsoft claimed that idea, the judge would immediately throw out the case because it would be an idea that is "too general" for claiming to have to be copied. Second... what happened to AOL, Safari, and Netscape all using browser plugins??? Come on.....

Second, Microsoft got sued for packaging MS IE with every copy of windows.... i mean WTF?&#33; Apple comes with Safari and they dont get sued... geeze... i think its just cuz everyone is jealous because bill gates is something they can never be... also, for everyone who says microsoft is crap... . yeah, it is sometimes, but if mac and linux were just as popular, everyone would be dissing them just as much...
:lol: mac sucks it will and ever be as good as windows :P

i think the goverment should just but out and leave him alone :rolleyes:

[h1]

The government should take all of Gates&#39; money and give it to UNICEF.

[SeK612]

Don&#39;t see why they should. Its not like they&#39;re the only global corporation that abused their position...

[gungrave]

Originally posted by haxor41789@26 March 2004 - 01:34
The government should take all of Gates&#39; money and give it to UNICEF.
:angry: the goverment should bog off and leave him alone just remember this he made the program u got on ur pc windows u should be glad u got it :rolleyes:

EDIT:spelling :rolleyes:

[BawA]

Originally posted by gungrave+26 March 2004 - 17:12--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (gungrave &#064; 26 March 2004 - 17:12)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-haxor41789@26 March 2004 - 01:34
The government should take all of Gates&#39; money and give it to UNICEF.
:angry: the goverment should bog off and leave him alone just remember this he made the program u got on ur pc windows u should be glab u got it :rolleyes: [/b][/quote]
exactly, why the fuk some people hate Gate. some members in this forums(Mostly Lunix users) hate him cuz he dont give out windows source code, why should he? :angry:
Gates is another reach victom like MG, allways finding waysto get money out of them. :angry: :angry: :angry: .

[Amarjit]

These small firms, unjustly filing law suits on Microsoft, have yet to acknowledge the fact that Microsoft is the dominant corporate leader: its desktop computing OS is undeniably unmatched and consequently this has witnessed Microsoft having to abide by the law in releasing fragments of source code, simply to gratify the requirements of Sun Microsystems, for instance.

[WolverineDK]

windows and Bill Gates suck (plus Microsoft)
all though i am using windows 98 se legal but still it sucks.

[BawA]

u suk, dont use it if u dont like it, it so simple <_<

[WolverineDK]

Originally posted by bawa@Klite_user@26 March 2004 - 16:24
u suk, dont use it if u dont like it, it so simple <_<
thank you :) if it was ment to me

[james_bond_rulez]

no bill gates doesn&#39;t get raped, far from it in fact. EU has barely scratch Microsoft&#39;s ass. out of the hundreds of millions of euros being fines it only comprises 1 percent of Microsoft&#39;s CASH RESERVE, please note it&#39;s only the cash reserve we are not talking about the total assets of microsoft yet.

Bill Gates doesn&#39;t get raped at all, it&#39;s Microsoft being fined not bill gates.

Dont mix them together, they are separate entities in the financial world...

[ahctlucabbuS]

One thing that speaks in favor of Bill Gates is that he has donated wast amount of money to charity (as he damn should with that kind of income), but basically my view on the guy is pretty much sumarized by "I don´t give a fuck".

[Neo 721]

There isnt realy much he can do, his position is indestructable, even if M&#036; did go bankrupt they must have millions in his trust funds.