Shuttleworth - what Microsoft is doing is "racketeering" ....

[Alex Maynard]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Mike Kallies wrote:

> On 6/10/07, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> ...
> > Bottom line, before the government goes after MS there
> > is going to have to be a fair bit of political will,
> > which at the moment doesn't seem to be there.
> ...
>
> That's where I think things get tricky.  From a political standpoint,
> a politician has to stand up and say "This large U.S. employer has a
> monopoly and they're abusing it to lock-out competition!"
>
> Then they have to have an answer for the obvious response:  "Why would
> we want to damage a U.S. monopoly?"
>
> Maybe the whole thing will change when MS outsources everything, and
> the residents of Redmond keep getting bullied by their former employer
> from overseas.

Today's NY times seems to have a related article:

Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=sloginhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Alex

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