Pitching the big guns against the government’s own own economist, Frederick Warren-Boulton, Microsoft ears were present at an address given by Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman to a Cato Institute conference held at Stanford University last weekend. Friedman, who admitted he had once been an enthusiastic supporter of antitrust laws, said that he now believed that they do more harm than good and that we should not have them. Calling those in Silicon Valley who encouraged the US government to take on Microsoft as exhibiting suicidal tendencies, Friedman said that the action could open the door to more government regulation of the technology industry overall.
