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Angelus said:

Ryuu96 said:

Of course it matters if Microsoft succeeds, are you really suggesting that they genuinely want on their career "we stood up to Microsoft and completely failed" Lol. That does not help their career at all. They want this deal blocked because that is what proves that they've stood up to big tech and won, standing up to big tech and failing is irrelevant.

Of course, they'd LOVE to win, but we can see very clearly from the statements made by them that they consider the act of fighting the fight a noble goal in and of itself, and that they absolutely will continue to push that envelope. 

Yeah but also FTC is limited on funds and that kind of reckless shit is wasting those limited funds and will eventually piss off Democrats/Republicans. There is speculation that they are doing this, picking fights all over, to eventually force a change in law.

I do agree that they think it is a noble goal but I think it's risky to assume FTC is THIS stupid and just doing shit for the hell of it, as if they have no plan, which is just overly optimistic in favour of Microsoft. Their plan IMHO is very clearly hinging on the CMA blocking the deal and delay tactics which have worked in the past, so it's a somewhat smart plan.

We're not Microsoft though, who should now be putting their full attention into making CMA approve this deal no matter what.

It's this sort of delay tactics which caused other companies to abandon their deals and why companies are speaking to the SC to enact a change so they can force FTC straight to federal courts, Microsoft now has to go through their internal process before going through the federal courts, and the internal process is dated for August 2023, Lol.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 09 December 2022