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A Look at Microsoft's Regulatory Problems
jrexilius writes: "The Economist has a great article on the state of the EUs anti-trust case against microsoft, background, and future troubles with google. One interesting comment was 'Microsoft is preparing to use its dominance in web-browser and operating-system software to promote itself in yet another separate market--search engines this time'."
It is my opinion that the eagerness of the US courts to drag Microsoft into legal struggles has been the cause of the great IT depression.
I have been fascinated since I was a teenager by computers. Nobody knew about them. My parents nor my friends weren't interested. But I knew that the microcomputing IT sector was going to become immensely important, and it was with enormous fascination how I saw things falling into place.
During the end of the '90 the sector was finally receiving acknowledgment of its tremendous importance.
So I was shocked when first I heard about Microsoft being prosecuted. I thought: "Now that the microcomputing industry is finally being appreciated, they want to destroy a great company, out of pure jealousy and disdain. This will not bode well for anyone."
Along with smashing the image of its leader, US 'justice' has managed to smash the entire industry, and that includes you, dear reader, into pettyness and unimportance. You see, the sector had become too important, and something had to be done about it. Divide and conquer. Chop it into manageable pieces, and shatter the hopes of visionaries.
It has taken three years before the first signs of a weak recovery. And you can be sure that it will be a very, very long time before things look rosy again.
Slave away reinventing the wheel in your cubicles while power and money is kept out of your hands. Will YOU be able to get somewhere if even the great in our sector are not allowed to succeed ?
Think about it.