Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jun 2006 11:22 UTC, submitted by Dylan
The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it. By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.
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They are using them right now to cripple competition.
Fact is that patents stiffle competition by granting a law-protected monopoly to a certain person or group, thereby making competition illegal.
Microsoft holds many patents, and are using them actively and so does IBM.
Patents == high entry barrier. Microsoft owns patents and enforces them actively ERGO Microsoft participates in creating higher barriers.
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The government is protecting Microsoft. Ever heard of software patents?
Remove software patents (monopoly on ideas) and you'll see a lot more of competition.
Microsoft is big, and will stay big as long as governments protect it through legislation.
Remove the laws, and let man decide for himself.