[OT] Europe Fines Microsoft $1.35 Billion

From NYTIMES.

Perl6 might be done much earlier if we had gotten 1% of the fine. ;)

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Re: [OT] Europe Fines Microsoft $1.35 Billion by grinder (Bishop) on Feb 28, 2008 at 09:22 UTC
Well, you know the old saying, a billion dollars ain't what it used to be. When you take the inherent weakness of the US dollar into account, even more so (the fine is, after all, only 899M€). And Microsoft made $4.29 billion profit last year alone... • another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl	[reply]
Re^2: [OT] Europe Fines Microsoft $1.35 Billion by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 28, 2008 at 09:31 UTC
... that's still 30% of one year's profit gone. I think that's a start ;-) And I don't know the details, but I guess the fine is actually defined in Euro, and the US centric media printed the equivalent in Dollar.	[reply]
Re: [OT] Europe Fines Microsoft $1.35 Billion by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2008 at 16:10 UTC
Perl6 might be done much earlier if you had changed only 1% of Perl5. ;)	[reply]