Mozilla To EU: Can We Help Kneecap Microsoft?
The European Union's pending antitrust investigation of Microsoft (MSFT) for bundling the Internet Explorer web browser in with Windows may be ridiculous, but Mozilla (makers of the Firefox browser) isn't missing the opportunity to stick it to Microsoft.
In a weekend blog post, Mozilla Foundation chairwoman Mitchell Baker spews venom at Microsoft and announces her desire to participate in the European antitrust proceedings.
I’ve been involved in building and shipping web browsers continuously since before Microsoft started developing IE, and the damage Microsoft has done to competition, innovation, and the pace of the web development itself is both glaring and ongoing. There are separate questions of whether there is a good remedy, and what that remedy might be. But questions regarding an appropriate remedy do not change the essential fact. Microsoft’s business practices have fundamentally diminished (in fact, came very close to eliminating) competition, choice and innovation in how people access the Internet...
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This is nonsense. A company deliberately breaks competition rules, so you cannot blame the authority that it reacts to a complaint from a competitor.