Blawgletter has once in awhile mentioned the (cough) less assertive (cough cough) antitrust enforcement (cough cough cough) that we’ve seen since January 2001 (cough cough cough ack).
The NYT — with its gift for understatement — writes today about the pass that Microsoft has gotten from the current Antitrust Division, a part of Fredo Gonzales’s Department of Justice:
“With the change in administrations there has been a sharp falling away from the concerns about how Microsoft and other large companies use their market power,” said Harry First, a professor at the New York University School of Law and the former top antitrust lawyer for New York State who is writing a book about the Microsoft case. “The administration has been very conservative and far less concerned about single-firm dominant behavior than previous administrations.”
Thomas O. Barnett oversees the Antitrust Division.
No relation (cough oop ack). Cough oop ack, indeed.
Barry Barnett
