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Could the Microsoft-Yahoo! deal hurt the internet? According to Google; yes.

by Colbert Low Boon Leng on Mar 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM

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We thought that Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of the world’s top search engine Google was kidding when he said that Microsoft will “break” the free flow of the internet if it succeeds with their proposed Microsoft-Yahoo! deal. But things got a little more serious when Schmidt explained in detail how the internet-based systems of today are highly operateable, open systems, and the acquirement of Yahoo! by Microsoft would eventually break the system.

Schmidt also wished that this won’t happen, but he pointed out some past history of Microsoft to enforce that his statement on Microsoft breaking the system. “The things that it has done that have been so difficult for everyone” said Eric Schmidt.

During last year, the European court had brought up a landmark 2004 decision, where it’s stated that Microsoft has abuse their power of monopoly to create unwanted “havoc” to the competitors, ending up with a vast fine in the amount of $695 million. Let’s just hope that these won’t happened as Schmidt predicts otherwise it could be chaos on the World Wide Web.

Read [Reuters]

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Comments
  • Sam Jackson said:

    At a talk at Harvard Law School last Friday for the Journal of Law and Technology’s 13th symposium, Peter Fleischer, google chief privacy counsel, mentioned that microhoo / moo would represent a tremendous collection of personal data as well… #1 + 2 on several fronts like webmail, etc; that these things were not included in antitrust considerations and should not be, intellectually, but that they were still troubling concerns.

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