{"id":652142,"date":"2013-04-12T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=433393"},"modified":"2013-04-12T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:45:33","slug":"microsofts-android-antitrust-complaint-called-an-attack-on-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652142","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Android antitrust complaint called \u2018an attack on open source\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/microsoft-android-antirust-complaint-criticism-433393\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/android-robots110811183956.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=438&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Android Antitrust\" title=\"Android\" \/><\/a><\/center>When a <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>)-led group called Fairsearch Europe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/microsoft-google-eu-antitrust-complaint-425702\/\">filed an antitrust complaint<\/a> against <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) and its Android platform this week, it didn&#8217;t merely say that the company was rigging its search results to benefit its own products. Instead, it went a step further and said that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/ios-android-market-share-361895\/\">Google was unfairly promoting Android<\/a> to device manufacturers by making it free to use, while also accusing the company of employing &#8220;predatory distribution of Android at below-cost.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/04\/opinion-antitrust-complaint-against-android-is-an-attack-on-open-source\/\"><em>Ars Technica&#8217;s<\/em> Timothy Lee<\/a> finds this sort of attack on Android to be very dangerous on Microsoft&#8217;s part since it seemingly isn&#8217;t just attacking Google but the entire nature of open-source software.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/microsoft-android-antirust-complaint-criticism-433393\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Wa2VsKOWynE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a Microsoft (MSFT)-led group called Fairsearch Europe\u00a0filed an antitrust complaint against Google (GOOG) and its Android platform this week, it didn&#8217;t merely say that the company was rigging its search results to benefit its own products. Instead, it went a step further and said that Google was unfairly promoting Android to device manufacturers by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}