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Is this the cost of doing business in the EU?

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These fines have almost become a cost of doing business, look at Microsoft's fines over the last few years.

- Novell $ 536 million
- Sun Microsystems $1.6 billion
- AOL/Time Warner $750 million
- IBM $775 million
- Real Networks $1 billion
- State of California $ 1.1 billion

No sweat for them, the EU fine works out to about two weeks of free cash flow for Microsoft. It does raise issues about competing and marketing in the EU.

Paul Lopez

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