Justice Dept. Defends Microsoft Against Google

Frosty Piss writes "The Seattle PI reports that Google has complained to US antitrust officials about the hard-drive searching tool built into Windows Vista, saying that it stymies Google's similar search program. The complaint, lodged late last year, was revealed Saturday by The New York Times in a story about the Bush administration's handling of Microsoft antitrust issues. The real story, though, is not the Google complaint itself, but how the Justice Department is failing to enforce the Microsoft anti-trust decree. According to the story, Thomas Barnett, the assistant U.S. attorney general in charge of antitrust issues, sent a memo last month to state attorneys general across the nation, seeking to persuade them to reject Google's complaint."

Comments

Grep against Google

[Esteanil]

On another note, Google has ordered all Open Source programmers in their employ to issue weekly "patches" that include disabling grep from all linux/BSD distros.
"Grep is an evil command, and as a company that will do no evil, we must have evil commands removed." said a Google spokesman, before returning to his weekend pasttime of clubbing baby seals.

You can find out how to turn it off

[Dude McDude]

by doing a Google search.

Just goes to show what I always say...

[F34nor]

Its cheeper to buy a congressman than to fix your business model.

Re:google is EVIL!

[wwmedia]

I dont know whats worse:

one one hand Microsofts monopoly on THEIR operating system!

on the other hand Google's attempts to have their spyware installed on every computer so they can collect even more data!

kinda ironic that microsofts monopoly is making SPYWARE run slow, lol

Re:So?

[JamesRose]

Shouldn't've used froogle.

Re:Euphamism

[Negatyfus]

Uhm, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but in true Slashdot fashion, you've totally misunderstood what the article is about. I would like to add that I came to this conclusion without actually reading the article myself, of course.

Re:Thomas O. Barnett

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't "crooked lobbyist" redundant?

Re:google is EVIL!

[suv4x4]

Your post, enhanced via Slashdot vision TM

I dont know whats worse:

blah blah blah blah Microsoft blah blah blah blah blah !

blah blah blah Google blah blah blah blah blah blah !

Shoot, I'll go for the Microsoft one, it must be the worse one.

Re:Thomas O. Barnett

[SoulRider]

Yeah! And how about people who have committed suicide in charge of suicide prevention hotlines...oh wait!

silly fool, nothing to see here

[jollyreaper]

What you might not have heard is that Jack Abramoff, the crooked lobbyist who helped build Bush's crooked Republican Congress, got his start lobbying out of Bill Gates' father's law firm, Preston Gates. It would seem strange if Microsoft weren't getting the benefit of the crooked system it's helped train and build. Correlation does not equal causation. This is just one in a series of curious coincidences where the interests of the Bush administration and those who have backed them have coincided by mere happenstance. There is simply nothing more to it than that. Now if you will excuse me, there's a party operative at the door with a bundle of cash for me; coincidentally, mind you.