The important question to me is will this lawsuit do more good than harm. Having the government establish when prices are too high (price fixing, Apple in this

The important question to me is will this lawsuit do more good than harm. Having the government establish when prices are too high (price fixing, Apple in this case) or too low (unfair competition, Google maps in France) is a risky situation. Consider this quote from Milton Friedman talking about the antitrust suit against Microsoft in the 90s: "Under the circumstances, given that we do have antitrust laws, is it really in the self-interest of Silicon Valley to set the government on Microsoft? Your industry, the computer industry, moves so much more rapidly than the legal process, that by the time this suit is over, who knows what the shape of the industry will be. Never mind the fact that the human energy and the money that will be spent in hiring my fellow economists, as well as in other ways, would be much more productively employed in improving your products. It’s a waste! But beyond that, you will rue the day when you called in the government. From now on the computer industry, which has been very fortunate in that it has been relatively free of government intrusion, will experience a continuous increase in government regulation. Antitrust very quickly becomes regulation." Full article at: http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v21n2/friedman.html http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v21n2/friedman.html