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The case referenced by most US commenters would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
by areyousure 10y ago
The case referenced by most US commenters would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....
I've never known whether European antitrust (or privacy) action against companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook has had significant global/US effect. Do you (or anyone else) know of a good source on this?
- kuschku 10y agoAh okay – I’ve never heard of the US antitrust case, so I don’t know what effects it had. Regarding effects of BrowserChoice, Opera had some statistics: https://web.archive.org/web/20111209114445/http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2010/03/18/the-choice-screen-effect https://web.archive.org/web/20111209114445/http://my.opera.c... Mozilla also reports how much they lost due to BrowserChoice not running for a while – BrowserChoice had almost doubled their overall download rate: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-lost-6-9-million-downloads-in-eu-browser-choice-glitch/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-lost-6-9-million-downlo...