The Commission might now be entertaining the notion that Microsoft might have to bribe consumers to buy an inferior product.

He's the one who ultimately gets to decide what's in GPL, but he can't force anyone to use the license. He can ask that there be a bonfire in the square and burn all the impure software, but whether or not people show up for the bonfire is to be determined.

In the end, forced access amounts to corporate welfare and consumers will be the losers,

It's hard to get the image out of my head of Ph.D. economists patting consumers on the head as they take away their toys.

It's the difference between creating incentives for just 'good enough,' and incentives for investment in long-term solutions.

This is a delicate time, in the middle of free trade agreement talks between the United States and South Korea. It won't bode well for the FTA talks.

Competition is getting tough, and Microsoft is evolving to become more nimble. It's doing what good companies do: evolve to meet new challenges.

Technology has become so fundamental to the economy and so entrenched in the economy. That is why technology issues are on the candidates' radar right now,

These direct costs, coupled with an opt-in requirement, could endanger free online content and services that are paid for by targeted advertising and marketing.

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