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Difference is that Google lobbies for their own interests, Microsoft lobbies against Google. And one assumes that much of Google's lobbying is to counteract Mi
by yanw 14y ago
Difference is that Google lobbies for their own interests, Microsoft lobbies against Google.
And one assumes that much of Google's lobbying is to counteract Microsoft's.
Also Google's competitors are teaming with Microsoft to destroy Google, their agenda has nothing to do with consumer welfare. Case in point: now they're lobbying against open source software.
- scholia 14y agoSo it's the same story as before, just with different names....
- yanw 14y agoNo it isn't, none of Microsoft's competitors from the 90s were anything near its size.
- scholia 14y agoIn terms of 1995 turnover, IBM was by far the biggest IT company ($71.95 billion) and it was trying hard to kill Microsoft. IBM was followed by HP ($31.52bn), Intel ($16.2bn), Apple ($11.06bn) and then Microsoft ($5.09bn). Sun was bigger as well, but I can't turn up a number. Google's turnover for 2012 was $50.18bn, so Google is 10x the size now that Microsoft was then. And it's much more powerful.