Microsoft, the court said, should be punished for illegally using its monopoly on the PC operating system to crush threats from Netscape Communications Webbrowserer and Sun Microsystems Javaa programming language.
It is a tool in the hands of the president to crush the private enterprise system, to crush our ability to have energy whether it's oil, gas, coal or nuclear".
But the court rejected a plea by Microsoft to annul the fine, which was imposed in 2008 as part of a decade-long battle over the way Microsoft used its Windows computer operating system to crush competition.
Though he has long cultivated an image as a strong man, President Vladimir Putin of Russia actually seems weak and insecure, a judgment reinforced every time he manipulates the system to crush a potential political rival.
The states, which are challenging a proposed settlement of the federal government's four-year-old antitrust case against Microsoft, are trying to persuade a federal judge to impose more restraints on Microsoft's ability to use its Windows operating system to crush competitors.
NIF uses the world's highest energy laser system to crush tiny pellets containing a form of hydrogen fuel to enormous temperature and pressure.
The Commission has also charged Google with using its Android mobile operating system to crush rivals, a case that could potentially be the most damaging for the company, as it is the system used in most smartphones.
The finding was an important element in the court's determination that Microsoft had improperly leveraged its monopoly in the operating systems market to crush the competition in the Internet browser market.
Both examples helped brand Microsoft as a company that ruthlessly used its operating system monopoly to crush rivals.
Rescue meant forcing the mass sell-off of state industries, from oil to water systems, to the crushing of labour unions and to swallowing the whole bottle of poisons kept by the elite of the Northern Hemisphere for just such occasions.
