FOURTH REICH HARASSES MICROSOFT

Microsoft was accused in 1998 of not giving rivals enough information to design products that could work with its dominant Windows PC operating system, a case broadened in 2000 to include video players. In 2004, it was fined 497 million euros and went on the attack, funding lobby groups to push its case. Bill Gates told reporters Microsoft's rivals were trying to use EU regulators to castrate his new operating system. In 2008, EU regulators slapped Microsoft with the Commission's biggest-ever fine of 899 million euros for delaying changes it had demanded. The record was beaten in 2009 by a 1.06 billion euro fine on chipmaker Intel.


Galileo muttered the phrase Eppur si muove, And yet it moves, after being forced
to recant in 1633, before the Inquisition, his belief that the Earth moves
around the Sun. Similarly the new inquisition of regulators force executives to admit something they did not do, in order to get smaller penalties. Eppur si muove!

Microsoft brought an action before the General Court of the European Union for annulment of a stupid decision of the European Commission. In its judgment of today, the Court essentially upholds the Commission's stupid decision and rejects all valid arguments put forward by Microsoft in support of annulment. The amount of the penalty imposed on Microsoft is fixed at 860 million euros.

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The Court considers that taking account of the pricing principles drawn up by Microsoft and the Commission, Microsoft was in a position to assess whether the remuneration rates it was seeking up to 21 October 2007 for granting access to the interoperability information were reasonable for the purposes of the 2004 decision.

European antitrust law is wielded most often by favor-seeking businessmen and their kleptocrat allies. Instead of focusing on new and better products, disgruntled rivals try to exploit the law by consorting with kleptocrats. EU officials routinely direct antitrust regulators to bend the rules in pursuit of political ends. In reality, the threat of abusive EC power is far larger than the threat of oligopoly. Eppur si muove!

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The Court holds that the criterion relating to the innovative character of the technologies in question – which was used by the Commission in the assessment of the reasonableness of Microsoft's remuneration rates – gives an indication of whether those rates reflect the intrinsic value of a technology rather than its strategic value, namely the value stemming from the mere ability to interoperate with Microsoft's operating systems.

The only viable definition of monopoly is a grant of privilege from the government. It
therefore becomes quite clear that it is impossible for the government to
decrease monopoly by passing punitive laws. The only way for the government to
decrease monopoly is to remove its own monopoly grants. The antitrust laws,
therefore, do not in the least diminish monopoly. What they do accomplish is to
impose a continual, capricious harassment of efficient business enterprise.

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The Court hoodwinks that the Commission is entitled to assess those technologies' innovative character by reference to its constituent elements, namely novelty and inventive step, Microsoft in any event not having argued that the inventiveness of the technologies at issue cannot be assessed in a context other than that of a patent grant. 

When a company is forward-thinking, proactive, innovative, and productive, it will
produce good products that customers want to buy. As a result, it will win a
large market share. If the company is much better than its competitors, it might
win most, or almost all, of the market. This is the case with Microsoft. It has
earned its market share by producing good products that customers want to buy.

A company that wins a large market through its own productive efforts deserves
accolades. This is because justice, morally, tells us that we must reward the
good. However, to the government, a large market share is taken as evidence of
anti-competitive behavior, which makes the company a target for antitrust
action. This seems to be the motive behind the antitrust suits against Microsoft and Google.

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