[Sheflug] A Peek Behind the Curtain of the Texas Antitrust Complaints against Google

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100904101642564

Good read in some places....

"  I guess you heard that the Texas attorney general has opened an 
investigation into antitrust complaints against Google, complaints 
lodged by Foundem, SourceTool, and myTriggers.com. Them again? Their 
complaints are not new. Here's Google's blog post about it. 
And likely you heard about that utterly tasteless ad in Times Square 
from Consumer Watchdog, a cartoon of a creepy looking Eric Schmidt 
handing ice cream to children and asking for their secrets.
I think I can explain both events, because they are part of one 
campaign. Or as American Lawyer describes  the lawyers behind this, 
they are on a crusade against Google. The article is titled "The 
Google-Slayers". Guess who the lawyers on this crusade have as a 
client? Microsoft. They handle Microsoft's antitrust work. Guess who 
sent the first complainant to these lawyers, which led to this crusade? 
Microsoft. The jumping off point. "

-- 
Richard
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