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[FYI] US DoJ rep moves to blunt Europe's action on MS
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- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:02:27 +0200
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US DoJ rep moves to blunt Europe's action on MS
By John Lettice
Posted: 20/05/2002 at 09:05 GMT
US assistant attorney general and DoJ head Charles James was in
Brussels fingering (if not quite rattling yet) sabres last week. The
"theory of monopoly leveraging," which appears to underly some of the
European antitrust case against Microsoft, has "very little standing
in the US" and "has been largely if not entirely rejected by our
courts."
[...]
So, if Europe imposes tough measures on Microsoft which the US
authorities deem to be based in the theory of monopoly leveraging,
and the theory of monopoly leveraging has been widely discredited in
the US, then here we go down the massive US-EU antitrust/trade war
route. We think that's what Mr James is suggesting.
[...]
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