Microsoft Antitrust Oversight Ends

dcblogs writes "The US Department of Justice remedies supervision in the Microsoft antitrust case ends Thursday, closing the landmark case, which began in 1998. But the questions posed by trial federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's attempted remedy remain: Did tech innovation suffer over the last 10 years because Microsoft wasn't broken up? 'Not really,' said Vinton Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, 'It has to do with the fact that open source has become such a strong force in the software world.'"

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Re:When did it actually start?

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I find it funny that Google spokesman says that. I posted this in other article, but it fits this one perfectly

I would find it interesting if Google opened up their search engine code. They claim it is beneficial for companies to open source their products and keep customers by offering better services than others. It's an interesting claim from a company whose main product is closed.

After all, by not opening up their search engine and data they're the ones pushing out competitors on the area just by Google's enormous size. No one else can ever get close to that kind of usage data, hence Google will always dominate the field. At least Bing is still somewhat holding on now, but it's the last one in western world.

However, I'm glad Yandex is still holding on in Russia and Baidu in China. At least Google has some competition. And it wont replace those easily.