Machiavellian said:
In business you look to the future and hope for the best results. In this MS is just following good business. MS will be purchasing more devs or it could be just about anything and they want the FTC to have a more favorable eye to not jump to sueing them every time they make a move. It may or may not be effective but it cost MS pretty much nothing to at least soften them up. |
The FTC has already made it quite clearly that they have exactly 0 interested in negotiating with MS at all, nvm negotiating with them in good faith. And just as it relates to sizeable mergers as a whole, their attitude is clearly to drag everyone to court rather than simply working something out. No point picking up the phone for them at this point, unless, magically, the first word's outta Khan's mouth are "I'm so sorry, I really fucked up here..."
