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Angelus on 20 July 2023
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Machiavellian said:
Ryuu96 said:

Honestly, I'd tell them to piss off, after how they've behaved since the start (refusing point blank to discuss remedies with Microsoft) and the fact that FTC's approval is irrelevant, they've lost, they can't stop the deal and this current FTC is going to 100% go after Microsoft's next acquisition even if Microsoft extends them an olive branch.

Got demolished in court and now they come crawling back and suddenly want to talk remedies, Lol.

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..."