>Well, that seems to have completely backfired on the EU.
Once you are found guilty, you aren't operating in a vacuum anymore. We have yet to see what sorts of remedies the EU may require of Google if they do not agree with Google's decisions on how to resolve the situation.
For instance, Microsoft was forced to open up its Client/Server protocols as part of their antitrust action.
>Microsoft Wednesday attacked the most contentious part of the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against it -- the decision to force the company to share details of server source code.
>The 2004 ruling ordered the company to open up source code for server communications protocols to rivals, in order to allow them to build server programs that work as smoothly with Windows as Microsoft's own software.
Once you are found guilty, you aren't operating in a vacuum anymore. We have yet to see what sorts of remedies the EU may require of Google if they do not agree with Google's decisions on how to resolve the situation.
For instance, Microsoft was forced to open up its Client/Server protocols as part of their antitrust action.
>Microsoft Wednesday attacked the most contentious part of the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against it -- the decision to force the company to share details of server source code.
>The 2004 ruling ordered the company to open up source code for server communications protocols to rivals, in order to allow them to build server programs that work as smoothly with Windows as Microsoft's own software.
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