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[News] [Rival] Hypocritical Microsoft Lobby Still Pressures Google

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Hypocritical Microsoft Lobby Still Pressures Google
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:40:40 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
U.S. lawmakers urge Google-DoubleClick deal scrutiny

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| Two U.S. senators on the antitrust subcommittee urged the Federal Trade 
| Commission's chairman to submit Google's purchase of advertising company 
| DoubleClick to "serious scrutiny."  
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6219414.html

It all started with Microsoft. It wanted DoubleClick for itself and got
rejected.



Recent:

EU extends review of Google/DoubleClick merger

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218300.html


Related:

Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress

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| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive 
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger." 
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html


Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.

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| Nearly a decade after the government began its landmark effort to break 
| up Microsoft, the Bush administration has sharply changed course by
| repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad 
| against accusations of anticompetitive conduct, including the recent
| rejection of a complaint by Google.
| 
| [...]
| 
| In the most striking recent example of the policy shift, the top 
| antitrust official at the Justice Department last month urged state
| prosecutors to reject a confidential antitrust complaint filed by 
| Google that is tied to a consent decree that monitors Microsoft's 
| behavior. Google has accused Microsoft of designing its latest 
| operating system, Vista, to discourage the use of Google's desktop 
| search program, lawyers involved in the case said. 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin


Politics and tech companies: follow the money

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061110-8194.html


Changing the Report, After the Vote

http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission


Tech Companies Paid Lobbyist $200,000

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| Over 60 companies and trade associations, including Microsoft Corp. and Apple 
| Inc., have formed the Coalition for Patent Fairness, which paid Patton Boggs 
| to lobby Congress in support of patent reform legislation, according to the 
| form posted online Aug. 9 by the Senate's public records office.   
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070830/tech_companies_lobbying.html?.v=1


Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation

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| It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into
| a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within
| 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were
| pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations
| (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974. 
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss


Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket

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| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from 
| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
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http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsofts-pocket/


Google-Doubleclick deal likely to win OK - experts

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| Mark Kovner, an antitrust lawyer with Kirkland & Ellis, said the Federal 
| Trade Commission was not inclined to block vertical mergers, which are 
| usually the combination of two companies producing different goods or 
| services for the same product.   
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http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN09237242


Kroes slams US criticism of EU Microsoft ruling

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| Kroes said that it was "unacceptable" that a representative of the US 
| judiciary should criticise a court of law outside his jurisdiction. 
| 
| “It is absolutely not done,” she told journalists on Wednesday.
| 
| “The European commission does not pass judgement on US rulings and we should 
| expect the same from the US.” 
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http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200709/87884c7c-c721-49b1-b6f0-5ba4ece0897c.htm


Microsoft, The European Union, and the United States: A Statement by the AAI

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| The AAI comments on the European Court of First Instance's upholding of the 
| EC's Microsoft decision, taking the USDOJ to task for poor diplomacy and 
| mistaken policy in its criticism of the EC.  
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http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Archives/miceu3.ashx


Microsoft sets spinners on court verdict

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| Microsoft may have lost in court, but it quickly tried to win the war of 
| media reaction via organisations like CompTIA, the Computing Technology 
| Industry Association and ACT (the Association for Competitive Technology) 
| which both intervened in court on its side.   
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/reaction_microsoft_verdict/


Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff

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| E-mails released by the committee show that Abramoff, often
| with the knowledge of the groups' leaders, exploited the tax-exempt
| status and leveraged the stature of the organizations to build
| support among conservatives for legislation or government action
| sought by clients including Microsoft Corp., mutual fund company
| DH2 Inc., Primedia Inc.'s Channel One Network, and Brown-Forman,
| maker of Jack Daniel's whiskey.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200889.html
http://tinyurl.com/y2rbpu


Microsoft Paid Lobbyist $160,000

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| Microsoft Paid Paid Bingham McCutchen $160,000 to Lobby Federal Gov't in 
| First Half of 2007 
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070905/microsoft_lobbying.html?.v=1


Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting

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| Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense 
| and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards 
| Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on 
| ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in 
| competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.    
| 
| Gates reportedly picked up the phone when the last INCITS ballot failed by 
| one vote to support Microsoft. 
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http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573_p.htm


The Complete Story on the US INCITS Vote

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| Well, it’s hard to take a vacation, isn’t it? Not only is it styled as “going 
| quiet,” but it offers an opportunity for others to present only part of the 
| story. While much of what Jason writes is accurate, it’s curious what he 
| leaves out - including the fact that not one ballot, but two, have been 
| circulated to the INCITS Executive Board for simultaneous voting.    
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070822150743399

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