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I fully understand the sentiment, but let me try to hack your comment, and play the devil’s advocate: * Law works in mysterious ways: a victory for blatant rea

by bertil 13y ago

I fully understand the sentiment, but let me try to hack your comment, and play the devil’s advocate: * Law works in mysterious ways: a victory for blatant reasons might be expressed with a rationale from the judge that triggers worst outcome. I hate the laws because of that (or rather, lawyers for being so clueless about economic assumptions behind recommendations) but that makes every nuanced decision so much more enjoyable. * A victory from the big, profitable company against a new business model (OK, I might have forgotten a moral decrepitude from one party in that description; thing is: law often does, too) means that jurisprudence might end up appearing a lot more in favor of winners, i.e. against competition and for established monopolies. Might: let's see what gives, but please remember that having a vivid tech scene does rely on a handful of counter-intuitive decisions that were made against allowing Standard Oil to offer cheap gas, against Microsoft for offering a simple, working solution, against Google simplifying their privacy statements. Competition law is counter-intuitive and unsatisfying.

judk 13y ago
Of Microsoft's simple solution was "working" (something like the original Chrome before Google made it into IE:The Next Generation with their proprietary pile-ons, the gnashing and wailing would not have happened. It was their proprietary crap defacto monopoly browser that led to the complaints.
- joehillen 13y ago
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- bertil 13y ago
  Technically, the quality of the browser was immaterial to the EU Competition authority investigation, and a good browser (as it was at the time the investigation was suggested, an eon ego by tech standards) might have made things worst. The political support for the investigation came later, wasn't neutral to the outcome and was then triggered by the quality of the software. Administration works in mysterious ways, and the European Commission’s are strangers than Cthulhu's.
seanysean 13y ago
I must say that I find it revolting that you would invoke "competition law" to defend a patent monopoly. I understand what you're trying to say but you should keep your economic theorizing in check, seeing as you're very libertarian in your attitude towards IV and in the same model going all Keynesian on Google (and via courts no less) your facts are also off, seeing as 'non-practicing entities' or 'patent assertion entities' are hardly "new business models" in fact they've been at this racket for so long they are now called "trolls" for short, or the "Mafia" if you're an originalist.

by bertil 13y ago

judk 13y ago

Of Microsoft's simple solution was "working" (something like the original Chrome before Google made it into IE:The Next Generation with their proprietary pile-ons, the gnashing and wailing would not have happened. It was their proprietary crap defacto monopoly browser that led to the complaints.

joehillen 13y ago
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bertil 13y ago
Technically, the quality of the browser was immaterial to the EU Competition authority investigation, and a good browser (as it was at the time the investigation was suggested, an eon ego by tech standards) might have made things worst. The political support for the investigation came later, wasn't neutral to the outcome and was then triggered by the quality of the software. Administration works in mysterious ways, and the European Commission’s are strangers than Cthulhu's.

seanysean 13y ago

I must say that I find it revolting that you would invoke "competition law" to defend a patent monopoly. I understand what you're trying to say but you should keep your economic theorizing in check, seeing as you're very libertarian in your attitude towards IV and in the same model going all Keynesian on Google (and via courts no less) your facts are also off, seeing as 'non-practicing entities' or 'patent assertion entities' are hardly "new business models" in fact they've been at this racket for so long they are now called "trolls" for short, or the "Mafia" if you're an originalist.