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I am not surprised. The new US administration woke up the regulators from their year if not decade long nap. Facebook buying that VR company blocked, Penguin Si
by locallost 4y ago
I am not surprised. The new US administration woke up the regulators from their year if not decade long nap. Facebook buying that VR company blocked, Penguin Simon&Schuster merger blocked, and now this. You can't have a market economy without competition.
- RajT88 4y agoAt least 10. But even 10 years ago, they were in a lower-appetite state for antitrust enforcement. I think we could say that the appetite got lower around 2000ish, right?
- gmueckl 4y agoAround 2000? Hm... didn't the big Microsoft antitrust case get its teeth pulled by political influence around that time?
- RajT88 4y agoJust so. ETA: although this is much bigger than just MSFT.
- anankaie 4y agoNo, the antitrust case turned slightly on appeal (due to Microsoft being able to point at the judge giving interviews about the case on TV /during/ the case), removing the breakup order and enabling them to settle with a Consent Decree. Note that it did not invalidate the findings of fact. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.#Appeals_Court_decision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
- gmueckl 4y agoHm, my recollection may be wrong here, but I think that the transition from the Clinton to the Bush administration changed how the DoJ approached the case and allowed the settlement to happen. It was my impression at the time that the Clinton administration would rather have continued in court at that point.
- anthonypasq 4y agoI can easily name about 10 high profile competitors to Microsoft in the gaming space off the top of my head. What are you on about?