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No, they won't. They've already fined Google billions, but have they got the money? Not a chance. Any fine will be fought for at least a decade (see Oracle v Go

by tcd 8y ago

No, they won't. They've already fined Google billions, but have they got the money? Not a chance. Any fine will be fought for at least a decade (see Oracle v Google) and will end up in limbo forever. They could fine Google $1 trillion, wouldn't make a difference.

onetimemanytime 8y ago
Even if appeal it 500 times and lose, Google will have to pay, along with interest.
- thrower123 8y ago
  If the cost-benefit analysis comes out that far in the red, Google could just bail, and what would the EU regulatory agencies do? Seizing a few office complexes and a data center or two isn't going to amount to much in the way of actual value. It's not like Google is an old-time capital-intensive manufacturing or resource-extraction company.
  - notfromhere 8y ago
    Google is going to lock itself out of a quarter of the globe's GDP?
    - skj 8y ago
      If the other option costs $1T? It's a bit of a hypothetical since that won't be the only other option, but that was the thought experiment.
    - kkarakk 8y ago
      remember when google left china, the good old days of don't be evil