And how much pain will SAS have to endure before they change ways? Will 20 to 30% drop in market share catch their attention?

For years, SAS has played pricing games. Just about everyone is sick of paying for hotels, art, country clubs, health clubs and 35 hour work weeks in addition to their software.

And you wonder why the EU have taken to crushing large American corporations like Intel, MS, Oracle and Sun?

Expect there to be reprisals for this action from the EU regulators in the coming months of years, even if it means someone else getting a slap owed to SAS.

The point of a proprietary combustible-engine vehicle design can not be to prohibit combustion in nature.

...That American based companies and individuals often live in their own little bubble. (Some Americans are aware and understand this, but most aren't).

They don't get that when you play in someone else's backyard (like Iraq, Afghanistan, or in this case; the UK), they aren't in the good old USA any more. They're operating under someone else's rules, etc.

...What one may deem acceptable in US, is not necessarily tolerated in other parts of the world.

As a citizen of US, I say that American government and companies have to realize that laws in other parts of world are different. This case is properly tried in a British court and should be guided by British law. Too damn bad if SAS doesn't like it. They don't have to sell overseas.

I am getting a bit fed up with arrogant attitude of US government and US companies that US law should prevail world-wide.

Guys, it's call self-determination, and if you don't like other people making their laws to suit their own circumstances, then stay within US borders and stop your pathetic whining.

Likewise, Euro-peons should stop telling us in US how to run our country. We are not here for your benefit as you aren't for ours.

It is the absurd pricing of SAS that allows for companies like WPS to produce an alternative program that can run SAS code.

I think many customers are fed up with paying for the SAS castles and landhouses...