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• You don't know what you are talking about..
  Before saying this kind of things you should think a bit more..
  The EU Commission is only trying to guarantee equal treatment to all EU consumers, meaning that if you want to sell your product in the EU market you have to do so in the same way across all the EU member states.
  Obviously this is not always economically efficient (as Ramsey could say..) but this is the law.
  Hence if you want to sell in Eu you must obey to the legal framework that is defining the rules in the market.
  Furthermore don't worry because there are bilateral agreements between EU and US on this kind of things but in this case I don't know if US antitrust authorities would say anything different to what has already been said by the EU commission, since the antitrust law in both the markets are based pretty much on the same underlying principles.
  Free trade means that you can trade freely in my market as long as you respect my legal framework that is something different to the situation where you can do whatever you want!!
  Free market is I don't create artificial barriers to entry only to worsen you off but it does not mean that you can come and behave as you would do if any rule exists at all!!

  April 3, 2007

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• Say hello to the competitors...
  Now finally I understand all the things that Microsoft is doing in this period...
  
  If you remember the new Xbox360 support ipod but you can't read with the xbox the songs that you bought on Itunes...
  Then we will have the new Windows Vista...
  
  My speculation is:
  - Vista will include an "iTunes-like" music store in bundle with windows...(that means a new windows media player totally integrated with windows...do you remember the browser's war??)
  - Xbox360 will be "natively" compatible with Vista to share music...
  - a brand new "ipod-like" from Microsoft will be release...obviously compatible with Xbox360, Vista ...
  - and remember that probably xbox will be able to read the Microsoft music store files...
  - do you remember that microsoft want also to release "windows live services"...add this with xbox live and with the new music store and you'll have a big-one-application totally integrated...say hello to all the competitors...

  February 11, 2006

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