Comment by HPsquared
2 years ago
Funny how all the antitrust stuff melted away in recent years. It's almost as if the parties involved see that their interests are aligned.
2 years ago
Funny how all the antitrust stuff melted away in recent years. It's almost as if the parties involved see that their interests are aligned.
I mean it's easy to claim your actions don't hurt your competitors when you haven't got any.
The antitrust "stuff" disappeared very quickly, 23 years ago, when George W Bush was elected President and his administration wasted no time in stopping the imminent harsh ruling against Microsoft in its antitrust trial, giving them barely a slap on the wrist, compared to the much stronger penalties they were undoubtedly facing (it was not at all unrealistic at that point to be expecting them to be broken up in some way).
Recently, Biden's administration has started changing the federal tune on antitrust, formally rejecting the intellectually and morally bankrupt Chicago School interpretation that has hobbled all antitrust efforts for decades. That's why we're starting to see some real antitrust cases again.
The EU has a lot of Microsoft money on their closed eyes.