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posted by on Tuesday October 25 2016, @11:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the money-for-something dept.

According to the blog post, the trial ended on October 3rd, and investigators found that more than 100 people, including former ministers, the mayor of Bucharest, and various businessmen were involved in this latest corruption scandal involving Microsoft. More than 20 million euros were paid by Microsoft there as bribes. The blog post goes on to say that:

The Romanian court ruled in March 2016 with sentences for 8 years of prison and 9 million euros of asset forfeiture for the 4 persons on the picture [sic]. These sentences were appealed and October 3rd the High Court of Cessation and Justice (HCCJ) confirmed the guilt and increased the sentences to 14 years in prison and 17 million euros of asset forfeiture for these same persons.

Intellinews and The EUObserver have more detail on this story.

These bribery convictions are just the tip of the iceberg. Multiple news outlets are reporting on investigations of bribery in other countries as well as separate investigations by the US Department of Justice and the US Securities And Exchange Commission.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Wednesday October 26 2016, @02:39AM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @02:39AM (#418822) Journal

    MS offers licensing deals to OEM's, if and only if that OEM promises to build ONLY Microsoft machines. Those deals have been known about for decades.

    Actually that's not true. Those deals were NEVER exactly as you think.

    Having worked for a OEM for a while, I can say with certainty (since I was the guy who had to research this) that no such requirement is imposed. We built MANY MANY linux machines as well as Servers running Netware, or Linux. (Mostly Suse SLES).

    In exchange for the lower price of copies of Windows, (which we had to purchase in bulk) we had to state that we Recommend Windows, but we didn't have to EXCLUSIVELY recommend windows, (and we published recommendations of Netware and Suse for servers).

    Dell and HP both made Linux machines for a while. Some with RedHat pre-installed.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 26 2016, @06:48AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 26 2016, @06:48AM (#418882) Journal

    That is informative. There is no "quota" or anything? That is, if you were to sell 80% competing OS's instead of MS, you didn't get charged significantly more for your next stack of licenses?

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday October 26 2016, @07:06AM

      by frojack (1554) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @07:06AM (#418883) Journal

      The discounts for volume are steep, STEEP.
      The Dells and the HPs of the world were basically paying nothing for consumer windows licenses. Nothing at all.
      Small fry operators were paying 25% and down.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Wednesday October 26 2016, @11:49AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday October 26 2016, @11:49AM (#418934)

    Those deals were NEVER exactly as you think.

    Read page 3 in http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/Microsoft_Antitrust.final.pdf [nyu.edu] .

    Microsoft and the DOJ struck a deal during 94-95 to forgo further litigation if MS sign the consent letter stating they'll stop forcing OEMs into exclusivity deals.

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