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Posted in Antitrust, DRM, Europe, Microsoft at 8:43 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
IN THE last short report about mischievous BBC-Microsoft overlap, the issue of insiders was discussed and also shown. This latest development is actually covered in a few more places such as this and this, but they totally miss the point about media control and exclusion of GNU/Linux due to Microsoft corruption. It only gets worse over time.
There is another new report suggesting that Microsoft might attempt to do to ITV (another British television entity) what it did to the BBC. To quote:
> Microsoft says it has no plans to revive the Kangaroo online video joint venture planned by British broadcasters but blocked for being anticompetitive. It follows a report that Ashley Highfield, the former chief executive of the Kangaroo, now at Microsoft, was talking to broadcasters about possible partnerships. A joint venture between MSN and ITV would be an interesting option.
Italy’s public television too has been ruined by Microsoft. It’s rendered partly obsolete by excluding GNU/Linux users due to the channels’ use of Microsoft technology.
How can this illness be ended? As the financial crisis serves to show, the ‘free’ market does not work because it assumes the honesty and goodwill of participants. In the cases above, what observers tend to find is a group of people serving personal interests or interests of other companies.
There is an interesting new article about a man who wrote a book in support of stronger antitrust action. Portions of it refer specifically to Microsoft.
> When the full history of Silicon Valley is written, attorney Gary Reback will occupy a spot halfway between a modern-day Tom Paine and Paul Revere. Nobody was more responsible than the 59-year-old Tennessee native for the legal assault on Microsoft a decade ago.[...]Reback was there for almost all the key battles — defending Apple in its fight with mail-order merchants; holding Borland’s standard against Lotus before the U.S. Supreme Court; persuading the government to question the Microsoft-Intuit deal, and of course, persuading Justice Department officials to sue Microsoft as a monopolist.
Mote regulation is certainly needed. Without regulation, there is anarchy. Additionally, only transparency keeps people honest and only open standards keep information accessible. Corrupting standards bodies, as as Microsoft so arrogantly did, is grounds for antitrust action too. █
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