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DOJ stands with Microsoft

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R. Hewitt Pate, the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, issued a statement last week about the European Commission's ruling against Microsoft. Far from being on the side of consumers and a free market, Pate's remarks nestle cheek to jowl with the monopolist itself. It even threatens -- on Microsoft's behalf -- the relationship between the United States and the EC if the Europeans dare to act like sovereign nations and put the interests of their citizens ahead of Redmond's. It's like waking up one morning to find your district attorney, who has sworn an oath to protect you from the bad guys, issuing press releases on behalf of the biggest crook in the county.

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After the antitrust trial in the US it was obvious the DOJ want MS to continue just the way it does. The government felt it was better for the economy if one company monopolised computers. Here's why. As long as the monopolising company is American then when that company monopolises computers the world over, American economy monopolises the world over. In short they are happy to let MS monopolise in the US because that helps them monopolise the rest of the world.
sad but true

there's enough wealth and brains in the rest of the world for everyone to stand up and say "thanks, but we've had enough now" the worst of it is the way people are programmed to believe there is no other way but total american dominance

(not a condemmnation of americans per se, just a condemnation of american foreign and business policy)

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