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What an Anti-Google Antitrust Case By the FTC May Look Like
hessian writes "It's not certain that Google will face a federal antitrust lawsuit by year's end. But if that happens, it seems likely to follow an outline sketched by Thomas Barnett, a Washington, D.C., lawyer on the payroll of Google's competitors. Barnett laid out his arguments during a presentation here last night: Google is unfairly prioritizing its own services such as flight search over those offered by rivals such as Expedia, and it's unfairly incorporating reviews from Yelp without asking for permission. 'They systematically reinforce their dominance in search and search advertising,' Barnett said during a debate on search engines and antitrust organized by the Federalist Society. 'Google's case ought to have been brought a year or two ago.'"
Yeah but it's google, so the android fanboys are going to protect their queen until death. It's like rattling the bars on the monkey cage when you say google is doing something illegal, I've never seen so much blind faith in a company! Thank god for Facebook and apple, lets hope google doesn't buy them both out because what would be left? 1984
Only after starting Internet Explorer.
I see that you have been misinformed. Although I do not usually go to bat for Microsoft, I am impartial since I use & develop software for all modern OSs regularly. I once thought as you did, but have had my mind changed. Allow me to correct this misconception.
After installing MS Windows XP Pro. I dumped my compiler toolchain into the system and was about to compile Firefox and Chromium when I thought: Wait a minute. There's been a way to get other browsers installed here without using MSIE all along!
I simply hit Towels+R to launch the run dialog, then entered: FTP
To my (un)Amazement the terminal based FTP client that is installed by default was actually installed by default all along! Who Would(n't) have thought!?
From there it was a simple matter of connecting to the Mozilla FTP site:
open mozilla.org
cd pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
ls
cd (into a version/platform/language/)
get "Firefox Setup 16.0b6.exe"
It was truly (un)remarkable that I could actually use MS's File Transfer Protocol client to Transfer Files without using Internet Explorer at all!
I felt quite silly for wrongly believing the oft spouted drivel about there not being any way to get another browser except through MSIE
I had used the FTP client for years, but I was blinded by my own MS hating nerd rage to the possibility that existed all along.
Why, those MS haters were just newbs who couldn't even use a simple FTP program.
Shortly after downloading the Firefox binaries I had the browser fully installed without having to clone a single Git repository!
IMO, Mozilla should make their releases folders a bit simpler to navigate, maybe an alias for firefox/latest or something. It's no wonder MS includes a browser by default. It's much easier to type "firefox" into a search box and click the mouse a few times to install it -- Mozilla's site even selects the OS, Platform, and Language automatically. At first I also thought it was super silly to integrate the web browser with the file browser, but if you think about it, if you've got a browsing engine capable of displaying FTP archives, why not re-use the code for the file browser too? Isn't that "The Unix Way!"(tm) ? I mean, Konqueror does this too, neh?
P.S. I just love that every key board has a Towel key -- X11 calls this the "super" key. Towels are super!
Douglas Adams would be proud.