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More Microsoft Antitrust Suit Insanity
Nicholas Provenzo | 16 July 2007
Why would anyone even bother defend the rights of businessmen when the real money is made in looting them?
Why would anyone even bother defend the rights of businessmen when the real money is made in looting them?
Microsoft's Tacit Surrender to Antitrust
Nicholas Provenzo | 13 July 2006European Commission regulators argued that Microsoft's success--and its desire to add to that success--made it a coercive threat to its customers and rival firms under the antitrust laws, and they punished Microsoft accordingly.
Public Agencies Take Turn Suing Microsoft
Nicholas Provenzo | 7 September 2004Antitrust settlements are a lot like shark chum--they attract predators instead of staving them off.
Capitalism and (Microsoft's) Freedom
Nicholas Provenzo | 2 March 2004Rather than attack Microsoft, perhaps Mr. Starr should reorient his gaze to the antitrust laws themselves.
Persecution of Microsoft is Immoral
Richard Salsman | 13 November 2003Microsoft is only the latest in a long line of victims of the unjust antitrust laws. From ALCOA in the 1950s to IBM in the 1970s to Wal-Mart in the 1980s, the government's goal has always been the same: prosecute an exceptional firm that is growing rich not through theft or fraud, but through superior production and voluntary trade.
The Meaning of Microsoft's Victory
Don Luskin | 6 November 2002If corporate defendants begin to factor into their strategies that they just might win -- and if regulators and especially state attorneys general begin to factor into their strategies that they just might lose -- perhaps capitalists won't be in such a hurry to march themselves into the gas chamber at the first threat of prosecution.
A Letter to the Department of Justice Concerning the Microsoft Antitrust Case
Joe Wright | 16 August 2002Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Oracle and now AOL want to use the predatory power of government to skew the market in their favor. They want the government to protect them from the free market.
Microsoft's Nose, Technology's Face
Sonia Arrison | 24 June 2002In a painstakingly detailed analysis, Bittlingmayer and Hazlett found that "government action against Microsoft appears to inflict capital losses on the computer sector as a whole." In other words, the time and money that Oracle, Sun, and AOL have spent encouraging government to harm Microsoft has also hurt them and their industry.
Microsoft's Crimes Against Humanity: The Wild West World of Antitrust Litigation
S Oliva | 20 June 2002Now interest groups that have an ax to grind with a company can go forum shopping for states that allow secondary consumers to sue under local antitrust laws.
AOL Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
James Glassman | 27 January 2002Instead of competing in the marketplace -- where it's been battered lately -- AOL has decided to compete in the courts.
Dollars and Crosses
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor
- Holleran on Anti-Hero Worship
- Salsman on the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives
- New Website: Checking Premises
- Job Creators: Who Do those Immigrants Think They Are?


