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I propose any company that flagrantly violates the intent of a ruling like that is sent to a special judge who operates in the same manner - bring forth a penalty while explicitly looking for every violation and arcane loophole to punish the company with.

It's "technically" just, after all.

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You mean "special prosecutor". Judges don't try to find things, they only decide which of the parties before them claiming different things is right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigating_judge_(France)

To save people opening the link...in France it would be a judge not a prosecutor. France has an Inquisitorial rather than the Adversarial legal system the UK and US have. Put simply, a judge doesn't merely decide between the two cases presented to them, they try and establish the facts

Edit: I said 'UK' where I should have said 'England and Wales'. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own legal systems, although I believe both have Adversarial systems they are different in some ways. The US system could, however, be seen as a continuation of the English system.

This is why HN is great. An immediate pivot to the technicalities and semantics of the French judicial system, off of a pithy comment.

eats baguette

I'll bet apple fan boys will agree to this statement for Valve or any other company, but when it comes to apple having to open up their walled garden in EU and then using every dirty trick in the book to make it impossible, oh boy...

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