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Antitrust vs. patents

Antitrust vs. patents

Posted Mar 3, 2009 9:39 UTC (Tue) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Antitrust vs. patents by ncm
Parent article: Third time is the charm?

Antitrust is basically « you're so big you've escaped normal market forces so either you play nice and self-regulate or we'll have to regulate you ourselves to keep competition (and market) alive ». It can trump pretty much everything else when there's an actual political will behind.


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