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That last part about antitrust is weird. European (antitrust) law is biased against large companies? Huh.
by johansch 11y ago
That last part about antitrust is weird. European (antitrust) law is biased against large companies? Huh.
- icebraining 11y agoWell, the point of antitrust law is to prevent cartels and monopoly abuses; companies of all sizes can be guilty of such. My guess is that he's saying that EU law tends to crack down on large companies even if they are only the largest (not single) player in a competitive market, while leaving alone the SMBs that collude to corner a small market.
- digi_owl 11y agoWhile IANAL, the monopoly part is a misnomer. It is really about abuse of market position. When Microsoft got into hot water during the browser war with Netscape, it was about abusing their position in one market (computer OS) to gain a position in another (web browser and web server). This by bundling Internet Explorer for free with Windows, that in turn had special binding to their IIS web server. So when EU is looking into Google, they are looking into how their position in one market gets used to affect other markets (like say when they re-jig their search algorithms).