http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182776&cid=15106712


Anyhow it's a deliberatley misleading argument - they're not being penalised for being successful, they're being penalised for BREAKING THE LAW. 

I wish we could punish people who spout insincere rhetoric like this by treating them as if they were being honest. 

Microsoft: "We shouldn't be punished for becoming successful."
EU: "Okay, we agree to those terms, appeal over."
[A month goes by.]
Microsoft: "Why are you forcing us to comply with the original judgement?"
EU: "Why wouldn't we? That wasn't a punishment for being successful, that was a punishment for being anticompetitive."
Microsoft: "We appeal!"
EU: "You already had your appeal, we agreed to your terms, remember?"