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Microsoft, antitrust and innovation, by Georg Greve (Groklaw)
Free Software Foundation Europe president Georg Greve
discusses the fallout from the recent EC antitrust ruling against
Microsoft.
"If one were to believe Microsoft, antitrust law is for sore losers who are too lazy to innovate, and the decision of the European Court of Justice against Microsoft was to the detriment of consumers around the world. One might even believe that any company with large enough market share would now have to fear the wrath of the European Commission and its anti-innovation bloodhounds.
At first the notion seemed ludicrous, but then more and more blogs repeated it and serious media started picking it up. Even representatives of the US government spoke out on behalf of Microsoft, to the annoyance of Neelie Kroes, the European Union's antitrust commissioner."
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anti-american, again? Posted Oct 1, 2007 18:16 UTC (Mon) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] ...well, as one American who moved to Russia reflected, if there's some problem and it can be presumably either with America(ns) _or_ some other country/people, they'll try anything to prove that the problem's on the other side.
I think it's particularly stupid stance, an ill person trying to convince herself that she's perfectly OK is just asking for more serious trouble. It's exactly the way America is fast-tracking its own doom by its own hands, methinks.
In this case, what can be done is spreading *truth* and not *false*, however inconvenient it might feel.
Good luck to any who dare to mess with that in their totalitarian state though...
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