 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | Google Learned From Microsoft For most of the 1990s, Microsoft actively stayed away from politics. They would not hire lobbyists, they would not fund political campaigns or the like. But unfortunately, politics is not like trouble, in the sense that if you avoid trouble, it usually avoids you.
Apple, IBM, Sun Whinersystems and Oracle successfully lobbied the US Government to set its sights on Microsoft in the mid-1990s. We had all sorts of anti-trust lawsuits come of it, and Microsoft ended up spending a lot of money to defend itself from these lawsuits. By the time the 2000 presidential election came, they had learned the hard way that unless you pump sufficient "protection money" into a politician's pocket, you become a target. What did they do? Dumped a ton of money into the Bush campaign... and upon Bush's victory, the government actions against Microsoft came to an end.
Anyone who thinks Google's influence purchasing is somehow for the "greater good" is going to be sadly mistaken. Google only cares to protect its own interests. "Lobbying up" as it is, is merely a means by which Google protects itself from hostile actions that could be taken against it by the US Government.
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 DaSneaky1Done wall to block them allPremium,MVM
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The Lou | Microsoft was actually doing wrong... |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by DaSneaky1D:Microsoft was actually doing wrong... But that only became "true" after the companies I mentioned lobbied the US Government to figure that out for themselves.
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"Anyone who thinks Google's influence purchasing is somehow for the "greater good" is going to be sadly mistaken. Google only cares to protect its own interests. "Lobbying up" as it is, is merely a means by which Google protects itself from hostile actions that could be taken against it by the US Government."
I agree with you 100% but we will always think Google is GOD and can do no wrong even though it's a multi-billion dollar company |
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Most of the people here are pretty much idiots. |
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 Mactronel Camino RealPremium
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CM94sv | ROFL  ... Again ! |
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Ahrenl
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North Andover, MA | reply to pnh102
I guess if your "true" isn't based on facts and reality.
My true doesn't depend on if the DOJ has brought anti-trust charges or not.
I haven't seen anti-trust charges brought against the fuel refiners, even though the US maintains over a 10 times refining margin to the rest of the world, and refinery run rates have "mysteriously" ticked down just as gas prices have hit all time highs with NO scheduled maintenance announced as required. Quite simply they just stopped refining gas to drive the prices up, and used the market price of oil as a cover, even though they have counter-cyclical ginormous stockpiles.
I don't need the DOJ to tell me that it's wrong to make it "true". |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | I couldn't agree with you more on oil prices.
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