According to economist Dominick T. Armentano, author of Antitrust: the Case for Repeal, competition law has failed in its objectives and should be repealed. The Microsft case is a classic example of competition law working against the consumer. Compete, but don’t win. Don’t make your products so attractive to consumers that 90 per cent buy from you and not from your competitors, as Microsoft does. Don’t add extra features to your products, at no extra charge, as Microsoft does. If you do, a group of bureaucrats who have never made anything in their lives can slap a 497 million euros fine on you, as the European Commission did to Microsoft in 2004.
Articole publicate de Eustace Davie
Eustace Davie is a director of the Free Market Foundation, in Southern Africa.



