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Re: Google lobbying Feds against being labeled a monopoly

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There are other OS's too, but MS was close.

When one company controls the world wide "starting point" of the Internet, the majority of all Internet advertising and all the cookies that monitor what you do, I would say they should be kept an eye on.
I don't think the government should have gone after Microsoft and now shouldn't go after Google either. But I also don't see why Google gets a pass when Microsoft didn't. It is the same situation.
I don't think the feds should have gone after MS either (Apple and Linux anyone?) but I don't think the situations are very similar. Google has real, certifiable competition from Yahoo and Microsoft.

It could have been (and still can be) argued that Apple and Linux weren't (and still aren't) viable competition to Microsoft on the desktop. Part of the anti-trust was also that Microsoft was using undocumented API features of the OS to give their products (Media Player, Internet Explorer) an unfair advantage over competitors.

Not to get off track, but I think the feds went after MS because at the time, MS has ZERO lobbyists in Washington and didn't really play ball like the government wanted. Hell, Apple is way more guilty of anti-competitive behavior than MS ever was. The difference is Apple is still in the single (maybe low double) digit percentages on the desktop ownership market.
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