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[FYI] US DoJ rep moves to blunt Europe's action on MS



http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25348.html

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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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