Robert Heller <[email protected]> writes: > At Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:56:25 -0500 "amicus_curious" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Rjack" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >> > >> > With the advent of the Obama administration, it is generally >> > expected that the Justice Department and the FTC will become much >> > more aggressive in antitrust enforcement matters. > > I don't think antitrust enforcement is going to 'destroy' Microsoft.
It is not the point. The problem is that this "enforcement" has far too much time lag at the current point of time. The educational value of measures is simply not there if instead of a slap on the wrist at the time of someone overstepping the bounds you get a vague threat of having him shot decades later. If the regulations are supposed to actually _achieve_ something, its effects need to much more immediate. Just jotting down a scalding entry into a Doomsday book record is not going to change a thing. If every administration change just changes the proposed penalties but never actually gets the process finished, the exercise is rather pointless. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
