Re: Microsoft testifies Google-Yahoo "anti-competitive"

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From Electronista:

http://tinyurl.com/5o5er7

Looks like Crybaby Microskank is having a hissy fit over
Yahoo
supporting ads on Google. Microskank's legal counsel Brad
Smith
is
such
a whiny assed girlie bitch.

Cuss and discuss, folks, especially all ye Windroids. Let's
see
who
can
be the biggest crybaby bitches.

Microsoft testifies Google-Yahoo "anti-competitive"

Tuesday, July 15th

Microsoft today argued that US House and Senate Judiciary
Committees
that the proposed Google/Yahoo deal, claiming that Yahoo's
agreement
to
support ads through a non-exclusive deal is anti-competitive
and
would
allegedly hurt innovation. The legal counsel for Microsoft,
Brad
Smith,
expresses fears that Google would control as much as 90
percent
of
online advertising, allowing it to dictate prices and force
companies
to
advertise through it for proper exposure. He also warns that
Google
could potentially have a monopoly on Internet services.

"If search is the gateway to the Internet, and most believe
that
it
is,
this deal will put Google in a position to own that gateway
and
the
information that flows through it," Smith claims.

If Windows is the gateway to the Internet for 90% of users,
one
can
easily argue that Microsoft is in the same position as
Google/Yahoo.
Maybe if MS was willing to give up its stranglehold, it might
have
more
credibility in trying to get Google/Yahoo to give up theirs.

I can buy a different operating system any time I want. I can
even
get
different operating systems for free. Likewise I can buy or
get
for
free
Web browsers and lots of different applications that don't come
from
M$.

How do I get the Internet to install a different major search
engine
any
time I want?

You can use a different search engine anytime you want...

Which other search engines get the results of either Yahoo or
Google?

Your earlier example of operating systems didn't guaranteed equal
outcomes: just additional choices.

IOW, you believe Mac OSX, and all other operating systems, are
inferior
choices to Windows?

Nope. I said nothing of the kind.

You said other operating systems, which includes Mac OSX, can't guarantee
equal outcomes to Windows. What else does that make them besides
inferior
to Windows?

Better, of course. "Not equal" doesn't mean "less".

Since there are better choices than Windows, you're left with coming up with
a better choice than Yahoo or Google to search the Web.

No, I'm not.

I'm not saying that Google isn't the best choice. Just that being the
best doesn't make one "anti-competitive".

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
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