Apple and Google 'probe launched'

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Source: BBC News

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the ties between the boards of Apple and Google, according to reports.

The New York Times said the inquiry involving Google and Apple centres on a possible breach of anti-trust laws.

Google boss Eric Schmidt and former Genentech boss Arthur Levinson sit on the boards of both companies.

The Clayton Anti-trust Act of 1941 forbids a person to be on a board of two rival firms at once if it reduces competition between them

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8033073.stm

[On the Road]

1. Strange

Of all the the possible cases to pursue, this one seems like an odd choice to pursue. Apple and Googles compete in many markets and are not conspiring to monopolize any one of them AFAIK.

There's a good reason for the law, but this is not what it had in mind. Obviously, Schmidt has to step down from the Apple board and Levinson has to choose. Case closed.

[Peace Patriot]

2. This is because Google's motto is "Do no evil." If their motto was "Do evil"--

like, say, Halliburton or Exxon Mobil or Bechtel or Dyncorp or AT&T or Diebold/ES&S, et al, or their henchmen in government who slaughter a hundred thousand innocent people to get their oil, and torture thousands for reasons unknown, they will not be "probed."

So, Google, Apple, get with it! Do evil--and no one in the U.S. government will touch you.