{"id":19370,"date":"2013-03-11T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19370"},"modified":"2013-03-11T09:07:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:07:43","slug":"best-comment-on-the-eu-move-to-penalize-microsoft-over-web-browser-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/best-comment-on-the-eu-move-to-penalize-microsoft-over-web-browser-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Best comment on the EU move to penalize Microsoft over web browser choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc\/?post=338242\" target=\"_blank\">Purp<\/a>&#8221; at <em>Ace of Spades H.Q.<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In other news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-21684329\" target=\"_blank\">the EU plans to fine Microsoft $700M dollars because European users are apparently too stupid to figure out they can download other browsers for free<\/a>. Porn and bootleg software? Mad skilz baby, mad skilz. Browsers? Not so much&#8230;huh? what? where am I? what is this thing, why does it beep? Help, I&#8217;ve fallen down and can&#8217;t get up.<\/p>\n<p>The fine works out to around $50 for each machine in violation that was shipped by OEM&#8217;s. The EU says they&#8217;re cutting Microsoft a bargain cuz they could have been fined $7B, or $500\/machine. Either way, its a pretty harsh shakedown caused by Euro-users (apparently) being lemming like incompetent imbeciles who are unaware other stuff exists. Its truly a wonder they manage to find the power switch&#8230;or maybe the EU sends out specially trained techs to turn on computers for people?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;Purp&#8221; at Ace of Spades H.Q.: In other news, the EU plans to fine Microsoft $700M dollars because European users are apparently too stupid to figure out they can download other browsers for free. Porn and bootleg software? Mad skilz baby, mad skilz. Browsers? Not so much&#8230;huh? what? where am I? what is this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,57,9,15],"tags":[337,58,94,92],"class_list":["post-19370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-humour","category-law","category-technology","tag-eu","tag-internet","tag-microsoft","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-52q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19372,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions\/19372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}