Re: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:30:00AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Christian Schnobrich wrote:
> >Forcing MS to simply make it public would effectively nationalize some
> >of MS' assets -- I doubt that such a step would be legally possible in
> >the EU.
>
> Then what, exactly, does one call nationalizing a few hundred million
> be called? Money is somehow less of an asset than code?
I don't think a fine is "nationalizing." Only capital assets can be
nationalized. Money is a liquid asset. They both mean "taking."
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