This should compensate for their constant transfer from Strasbourg to Brussels for few years.

Whoever said that I am a USA hater? Did I say I need your approval? Opinions don’t warrant/need approval from the affected party.

For all it’s worth i’m indifferent regarding the matter. I just told you what I read and hear. I’m not trying to start a debate

@45 Ben Dover

I agree that it is the US gov’t that the world hates. My post just wasn’t clear on that

Nicely said

We hear a lot of bad things about that happens in USA or something the Government has done (in the media) so a lot of people here in Europe often generalise.

We don’t like being put in the same picture with the baddies ourselves so why should you!

I’m from Denmark btw so there’s a lot of fuzz in the media everywhere atm about the drawings of the prophet and I tell ya, there’s a lot of generalisation going on out there.

All jokes aside, I agree with #44. It can’t be healthy and I wish you USA haters would get over it. We are not our government, most of us despise Bush & Co. more than you. Stop blaming and hating every American just because of policies or actions that we had nothing to do with. I could point out countless faults of European governments whose actions and policies on the world stage I dislike but I don’t go around badmouthing the citizens of those countries just because I disagree with something their leaders have done. Give it a rest and try having an honest dialogue with real Americans, not some jaundiced stereotype that may be fashionable to believe. You just might find that we are more alike than you ever thought.

The world is anti-USA because the USA is always butting in other country’s business. Trying to be the STAR, the HERO, SAVIOUR of the world, DEFENDER of the UNIVERSE. Their reason for doing that(other than getting oil or selling war machines)? So that they could feel safer in their homeland as if all the evil is from outside the US.

AIO (all in one) software/OS is fine as long as you can remove some of the parts completely and replace it with software that you want (IE wmp).

Your argument is from the point of view of a simple CONSUMER and not a COMPETING business (case of netscape[R.I.P (officially]) or a Company that needs to buy licenses for multiple pcs. Monopoly does not affect the simple CONSUMER as much as COMPETING businesses/Companies.

How’s that a problem? The world is mostly anti-USA apart from Southern Korea, “Isreal” and The Phillippines.

simple buyer1 : i want a pc that does it all.
storeowner:you can buy this pc for 500€ with windows installed and it can do whatever you want it do do.

or
simple Buyer 2 : i want a pc that does it all
storeowner: you can buy this pc for 500€ but you have to pay
150€ for cd burning software
50 € for DVD-player capabilities
30 € for a internet explorer
20 € backup software
50 € for media player

yes you can download most from the web as opensource
but john Doe doesn’t care and only wants a direct out of the store PC
and that is where the non-democratic Decision makers from the EU forget to think

I didn’t say they wouldn’t pay the fine, I said that even if they did it wouldn’t matter. Even if they paid a thousand similar fines it wouldn’t matter. They will still get away with business as usual.

As for how government runs… Since I’ve worked in both the public and private sector on the international level for over 25 years, I can tell you that governments are run by politicians who are mostly businessmen or those who sit in the pockets of businessmen. Trust me when I say that the honest ones are few and far between. And yes, they can be gotten to as well if their own financial assets are threatened. It’s as easy as making sure that at the next election a company donates big money to the opposition party and a few nasty rumors are spread. I’m not saying Microsoft would bother to do this, but there are other businesses who are a lot less savory in their dealings, which go far beyond Microsoft’s anti-trust violations and bundling practices.