Microsoft's legal bill 'too big'

[desdemona]

Microsoft's legal bill 'too big'

Microsoft is objecting to the size of legal bills submitted by lawyers who brought an anti-trust case in California against the software giant.

Microsoft told a California court that consumers could suffer if it has to pay the full $258m (£146.7m) bill.

read the article here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3715375.stm

[Umma]

Consumers already suffer with microsofts pricing policies...

:reallymad:

[Malicious Intent]

It's a lot of money. I cna't help but feel that M$ is getting attacked from every angle. The lawyer fees are ridiculously high, almost like everyone wants a big slice of the cake. On the other hand, such a big cake shouldn't exist in the first place.

[Ken]

This is chump change to M$.

Why would the consumer suffer? Greedy fucking bastards. So they do something wrong, get caught and fined, and now they want to take that out on their customers?

[Redneck4sure]

Legal fees are a cost of doing business and are always calculated into the products and services you are selling, just like utility bills and insurance. It is dishonest for the lawyers to inflate their charges and expect to be paid. If MS weren't a bunch of crooks they wouldn't be in this predicament in the first place.

Here is a classic case of two bunches of lying, thieving bastards trying to screw anybody and everybody. Which group of pond scum do you root for?

[Bombardier]

Their both pond scum :angry:

Microsoft deserves this. Every dollar of it

[Malicious Intent]

Which group of pond scum do you root for?

Exactly what I was trying to say, but I was less poetic.

[Bombardier]

Microsoft has been the main thing that has been pushing me towards Linux (and Mac) lately.

Their business practices are .... there aren't even any words to describe how bad they are

[Ken]

Legal fees are a cost of doing business and are always calculated into the products and services you are selling, just like utility bills and insurance.

Not for a 36 billion dollar and beyond company.

The fines didn't even put a dent in them.

It's like being run into by a fly.