{"id":4562,"date":"2010-03-01T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4562"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:03:15","slug":"microsoft-google-antitrust-sparring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/01\/microsoft-google-antitrust-sparring\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, Google antitrust sparring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4565\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Microsoft-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4566\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Google-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Google logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Google says Microsoft is waging a <a title=\"proxy war\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/windows\/microsoft_news\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223100932&amp;subSection=News\" target=\"_blank\">proxy war <\/a>by hijacking lawsuits brought by third parties to crank up antitrust sentiment against it so that regulators\u00a0clamp down on Google&#8217;s growth.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a> says legal weapons have become\u00a0competitive tools among big technology firms.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I don\u2019t think there are any angels left in the high-tech sector at this stage. The problem is that all of them will suffer if they do not take a firm, public stance against excessively interventionist antitrust regulation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959, <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google says Microsoft is waging a proxy war by hijacking lawsuits brought by third parties to crank up antitrust sentiment against it so that regulators\u00a0clamp down on Google&#8217;s growth.\u00a0 Law Professor Keith Hylton says legal weapons have become\u00a0competitive tools among big technology firms. &#8220;I don\u2019t think there are any angels left in the high-tech sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[637,418,682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}