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

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


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."

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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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