Originally Posted by lost eden 
Yet another example of when large IT companies with too much money (M$, Apple) assuming that they own anything they want, & if anybody complains they'll just throw money at them until they shut up. I mean how much money is M$ still paying the EU every day? Over a million euros? Because of the amount of money that these companies have, they are essentially immune to a large spread of illegal activities.
Is MS still paying that daily fine?
Whatever the case, the only way to engender corporate responsibility - in my er so humble view - is to have laws that impact on the directors of companies themselves.
Of course, in most situations, that goes counter to the whole concept of a company but that's something that can be changed.
But, as long as directors of companies can even avoid responsibility for negligence that results in destruction, death and physical injury, I suspect there's very little chance of laws being changed to make them accountable for more mundane stuff.
That said, I don't really see the adversarial situation that's developed between Cisco and Apple - which is more like a corporate game of chicken - as being very much related to stuff like MS's getting the wrong side of the EU.