At a time when most people agree that Google or Apple have replaced Microsoft as the tech industry’s top player, government regulators on two continents are going retro, pushing old antitrust arguments. This backward-looking thinking threatens innovation for all companies and needs to stop now. While the technology community has moved from obsessing over operating systems to focusing on Internet search and digital media, government regulators are stuck in the past, wasting taxpayer time and money.
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Retro-Regulators Threaten Tech Future
Posted by: Sonia Arrison September 14, 2007 04:00 AMAt a time when most people agree that Google or Apple have replaced Microsoft as the tech industry’s top player, government regulators on two continents are going retro, pushing old antitrust arguments. This backward-looking thinking threatens innovation for all companies and needs to stop now. While the technology community has moved from obsessing over operating systems to focusing on Internet search and digital media, government regulators are stuck in the past, wasting taxpayer time and money.