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Needlessly Needling Neelie
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| What's interesting here is that Kroes is juxtaposing proprietary and open
| source. Now, for you and me, this is reflexive, but for the EU's
| Competition Commissioner to be framing an extremely contentious
| intervention in these terms seems pretty stunning to me. It implies that
| the difference between those two worlds has been interiorised by at least
| some senior politicians to such an extent that they are using it as a
| central part of their analysis in major decisions, *without* feeling the
| need to justify that approach. Whatever your views on other aspects of the
| decision, I think Kroes deserves some credit for getting to that point.
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| More importantly, it basically means we're winning, people.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/09/needlessly-needling-neelie.html
"Monopoly raises two classes of problems for a free society. First, the
existence of monopoly means a limitation on voluntary exchange through a
reduction in the alternatives available to individuals. Second, the existence
of monopoly raises the issue of âsocial responsibilityâ, as it has come to be
called, of the monopolist."
--Milton Friedman
Recent:
EU warns online music stores: change or be changed
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| EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has warned the music industry that
| she is prepared to take action to ensure a competitive online marketplace
| across member states, especially for digital music sales.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20729/1054/
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