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sounds reasonable to me. this way, you get a disincetive to break antitrust rules for google, while not opening up a fight for shares of the money by their comp
by black_puppydog 8y ago
sounds reasonable to me. this way, you get a disincetive to break antitrust rules for google, while not opening up a fight for shares of the money by their competitors afterwards. EUR 1.5b (~$1.7b) is a nice sum to fight over, after all.
edit: of course, how big the disincentive is is up for debate. :P
- zaarn 8y ago1.5b€ isn't a lot; Germany + France + UK = 5 Trillion (5,000 billion) as a sibling comment mentioned. They don't care about 1 billion here or there.
- black_puppydog 8y agoIt would be a lot for any one of Google's competitors to fight over. That is, if the money were e.g. supposed to go directly to the competitors that were harmed here, there would be a huge allocation fight within minutes of this decision...
- zaarn 8y agoBut it doesn't, it goes into the EU budget.
- black_puppydog 8y agoexactly. so it sounds reasonable to me. what are debating again? :P