[Am-info] Reuters: EU Official, Microsoft Lawyer Differ on Antitrust

[Roy Bixler]

Here's a story which, even though the Microsoft lawyer claims he is only 
stating a personal opinion, seems to match prior Microsoft rhetoric on 
anit-trust:

EU Official, Microsoft Lawyer Differ on Antitrust
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030227/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_eu_dc_1

The dispute is over the concept of "essential facility" and the Microsoft 
lawyer says that it is invalid.  In the original 1913 case where a railroad 
was forced to share a bridge with competitors, the Microsoft lawyer claims 
those competitors instead should have been forced to use a different bridge 
or alternative technology such as airplanes regardless that neither 
alternative in that case was practical.  It sounds much like a philosophy of 
monopoly entitlement.

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Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
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