You still think that the 'free market' will fix it self?
Think again. There are cases when this is simply not true.
And if you don't believe me perhaps you will believe the findings of an Nobel laureate.
George Akerlof who got it for his paper "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism".
Read more about it on Wikipedia.
So in the case at the heart of this discussion the market has clearly tipped in Microsofts favor, so I think that everyone will benefit if some of its dominance is taken away. A certain level of regulation is good and needed in most cases, especially in this one. Everything else is just anarchy.
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Seriously speaking, why do you Americans have this knee jerk reaction against the EU in particular or governments in general?
This is extremely silly.
You still think that the 'free market' will fix it self?
Think again.
There are cases when this is simply not true.
And if you don't believe me perhaps you will believe the findings of an Nobel laureate.
George Akerlof who got it for his paper "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism".
Read more about it on Wikipedia.
So in the case at the heart of this discussion the market has clearly tipped in Microsofts favor, so I think that everyone
will benefit if some of its dominance is taken away.
A certain level of regulation is good and needed in most cases, especially in this one.
Everything else is just anarchy.