On: Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google

[rndgermandude]

It was shut down. They just call it a "settlement" to avoid it looking suspicious and for the FTC to save face.

So what was this "settlement"? Google promised to be nicer and said mea culpa a bunch of times. They did not pay a fine, did not agree to any hard regulations that would carry a penalty if violated, they did not pay any compensation to the entities they kinda admitted they wronged.

[erikpukinskis → rndgermandude]

Who did they wrong?

[rndgermandude → erikpukinskis]

Other companies and consumers.

[erikpukinskis → rndgermandude]

No names? I’m not sure where to start.

With Microsoft there were clear injured parties: Netscape, Samba, WordPerfect, and those results created a chilling effect around Windows.