Dominic Tristram

Bath, UK

Programmer

Microsoft should pay the fine of course, but what really needs to be done is for EU goverments to stop giving them business. There can be no fair market while companies try to lock people in to thier custom file formats and protocols. The EU should have a policy of only allowing government organisations to use software that works on these protocols, that was people can use products such as OpenOffice if they wish.

If Microsoft software really is worth the money then we'll see it sell well when people aren't forced to buy it over the alternatives. This is what Microsoft are scared of from the EU, not fines.