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You and I both know that comparing a price-fixing pharmaceutical cartel to Microsoft bundling a free media player is a JOKE.

Why do you keep harping on the media player? The important part is the effort to leverage a monopoly desktop OS into the server market through limited interoperability.

And you'd think that you might question your support for the ridiculous monstrosity that the government has created.

You are going all over the place now. Stay coherent.

Ergo, no remedy is required. The market doesn't need one.

Isn't that what I've been saying?

Show me any evidence that MS exceeds 40% market share in the server market. I'd love to see it.

Where did this arbitrary 40% thing come from? But okay, in 2001 Microsoft was shipping almost half of all servers. That's a HUGE difference.

IBM ain't an American company anymore.

What are you smoking, and can I have some? By that logic neither is Microsoft an American company. Speaking of international ownerships, Novell, an American company, owns SuSE, which is IBM's partner in the Munich Linux deal.

IOW, due to European adoption of Linux, money will be flowing into the accounts of American corporations. I know it's a hard one to grasp, but it's true: there are other American technology companies besides Microsoft, and they make money through free software.

Why do you keep harping on the media player?

Because that's what the fine is all about.

The important part is the effort to leverage a monopoly desktop OS into the server market through limited interoperability.

There's no evidence that server protocols have had any influence on market share.

Isn't that what I've been saying?

You've also been saying that you stand behind the EU's decisions.

Where did this arbitrary 40% thing come from? But okay, in 2001 Microsoft was shipping almost half of all servers. That's a HUGE difference.

You're gonna have to get more crisp in defining what the "server market" comprises. You and I both know that Microsoft isn't shipping half of all "servers". There's plenty of big iron and 'nix boxes in companies that you aren't including in your market.

What are you smoking, and can I have some? By that logic neither is Microsoft an American company.

If most of your employees and revenues come from overseas sources, it's safe to say that you're not an American company. Since MS doesn't fit that category, your comparison is bogus.