Antitrust doesn't work
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This article documents a non-solution or a dud.
For information of the danger of supporting these, see duds and non-solutions. For a list, see Category:Non-solutions.
History has shown that antitrust law and other laws to protect competition don't work against problems caused by patents.
[edit] Related pages on en.swpat.org
[edit] External links
- US Federal Trade Commission gives up antitrust proceedings against Rambus for using patents against companies it negotiated standards with
- US FTC report, 2007 (I haven't read this, maybe it's not relevant)
- YouTube video of EU Commissioner for Competition admitting that the EU ruling doesn't prevent Microsoft from demanding royalties
[edit] Microsoft
Examples involving Microsoft:
- Interview with ECIS's Thomas Vinje and Ashwin van Rooijen
- "The revised interoperability settlement does not appear to deal with the inadequacies of Microsoft’s standards compliance, unfair pricing practices or other concerns related to patent abuse or standards manipulation."
- 2009-10-10: FSFE: Microsoft settlement leaves Free Software in the cold
- "Free Software projects, which are often the strongest competitors to the company's offerings, will not be able to use the patent licence proposed by Microsoft."
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