French iTunes law now, um, law; Apple takes stand against Scandis

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inlogic @ Aug 4th 2006 11:15AM

"Do you really think that European governments reflect the wishes of the citizenry? Honestly? Do you really think that the citizens of Europe thought that giving up their currency, their borders, their weights and measurements was a good idea? Do you really think that Denmark citizens hate the iPod? Or could it -- no, of course not -- be another attempt at extortion from the government? (Apple doesn't have years of illegal activities under its belt like Microsoft does. Don't forget, PC drones, we know our competitor!)"

I am a citizen of one of the countries that belongs to the European Union, and I DO THINK it was a good ideia. And if you are a citizen of one of those countries in the European Union, you have no Idea of the developments through the entire European Union in the last 15 years and you certainly are disconnected from reality, plus I don't see what you are whinning about EU and Apple since these questions are being raised by member-states and not the EU comission.

Regarding Microsoft, in case you didn't knew, the whole deal with EU vs. Microsoft, surged when Sun Microsystems, an American Firm too, presented a complaint against Microsoft. You can read the whole thing here:

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/antitrust/cases/decisions/37792/en.pdf

I Don't know how you see it, but to me it seems that things are working, since they don't look afraid of these kinds of companies and protect the consumer and developers inside the EU. I would seriously recommend you to read the stuff in this website http://europa.eu/ so that you don't say more gibberish like that.

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