And that seems to frustrate the Department of Justice Corporate Pampering.
Reading the DoJ statements about the EUs treatment of Microsoft and how it ‘may have the unfortunate consequence of harming consumers by chilling innovation and discouraging competition’ makes me wonder whether it is referring to the same case, the same software, the same company and the same planet or whether they’ve been smoking the corporate crack pipe for far too long.
Microsoft’s dominance of the market has anything but helped competition and innovation over its twenty year reign of the industry. But then again, these are the same people that found Microsoft guilty seemingly only because the evidence was overwhelmingly against it, but then decided to do nothing about it. Kroes is absolutely right to express her frustration about the DoJ’s public criticism on the EU’s policy; it’s none of their business and definitely not within their jurisdiction.
