Robert Bork on antitrust: Google is no Microsoft

Re:Robert Bork on antitrust: Google is no Microsoft by nl on Monday October 08, 2012 @05:29AM (#4626104)

It could easily be argued that google is using their search monopoly to exclude less capitalized competitors from developing mobile operating systems by selling below cost, which harms consumers by reducing competition and choice.

That sounds almost sensible until one realizes then when you say using their search monopoly what you mean is using the money they make from search.

By that logic NO profitable business would ever be able to move into another line of business. Also, that isn't what anti-trust law is about.

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Re:Robert Bork on antitrust: Google is no Microsoft by fleitz on Monday October 08, 2012 @11:38PM (#4629834)

Whether they have a monopoly or not is a question for the courts, I consider them to have a monopoly in search, apparently you do not. In the case that they don't have a monopoly in search then you're correct, but if they are found to have a monopoly then they could be found in violation.

Actually anti-trust law is about using the profits from one business to vertically integrate others by using the profits from one to subsidize the other. There is a modern component to it that revolves around consumer harm but anti-trust law was written as a means of redress for other businesses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Monopoly_charges_a...

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