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Microsoft questions Google's plan to save the world through ads
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| Yes, Microsoft turned up at today's dueling Congressional hearings on the
| Google ad pact with Yahoo!.
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| When he last testified before Congress, Smith said much the same thing about
| Google's DoubleClick acquisition. But this time he acknowledged that such
| statements are a tad hollow when coming from Microsoft.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/15/microsoft_goo_hoo/
Microsoft too tried to buy DoubleClick.
Recent:
Google, Zen Master of the Market
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| Still, dominance alone is not an antitrust problem. The issue is the powerful
| company’s behavior, says Andrew I. Gavil, a professor at the Howard
| University School of Law. “You have to be big and bad, not just big,” he
| said.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/nytimes/080707/1194792340793.html?.v=3
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates
Say
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| Patent monopolies are believed to drive innovation but they actually impede
| the pace of science and innovation, Stiglitz said. The current “patent
| thicket,” in which anyone who writes a successful software programme is sued
| for alleged patent infringement, highlights the current IP system’s failure
| to encourage innovation, he said.
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| Another problem is that the social returns from innovation do not accord with
| the private returns associated with the patent system, Stiglitz said. The
| marginal benefit from innovation is that an idea may become available sooner
| than it might have. But the person who secures the patent on it wins a
| long-term monopoly, creating a gap between private and social returns.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129
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