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On March 10, the Senate confirmed Merrick Garland as the 86th U.S. attorney general, laying the groundwork for the Biden administration to begin implementing its priorities, including the possible appointment of an antitrust czar. Attorney General Garland departs the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, often referred to as the second highest court in the land, where he served as the chief judge for over eight years. In the mid-1980s, General Garland briefly taught antitrust law. He also authored an article in the
Yale Law Journal titled, “Antitrust and State Action: Economic Efficiency and the Political Process,” where he discussed the immunities under the Sherman Act for state and local regulations.
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Cloud services are the great disruptor of both IT organizations and vendors, and wrapping open source software around a service is the latest flashpoint.
The open source development model has proven to be an incredible incubator of innovative software by democratizing and distributing the conception, design, implementation and debugging of new titles, advantages that were thoroughly explored more than two decades ago in the book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Although open source has since been adopted, encouraged and sponsored by every major software company, its origins were decidedly non-commercial with utopian overtones of liberating code from the tyranny of proprietary shackles. The earliest open source projects, notably Gnu Emacs and other tools from the Gnu Project, embraced this idealistic ethos with a restrictive, comprehensive license, GPL, that applies to derivative work using the code.
Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This is an in-depth but accessible discussion of how the Big Tech monopolists abused their powers to secure and perfect their advantaged positions. The good news is that the government sleeping giant has awoken to the threat they pose to its authority, and it pulling out antitrust weapons with the aim of cutting the monopolists down to size.
Consider a conversation Alastair Mactaggart had among friends at a social outing. The San Francisco real estate developer asked an engineer working for Google whether we should be worried about privacy. “Wasn’t ‘privacy’ just a bunch of hype?” Mactaggart asked. The Google engineer’s reply was chilling: “If people just understood how much we knew about them, they’d be really worried.”