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● 03.19.09

●● Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC): Got Microsoft?

Posted in Antitrust, Google, Microsoft at 5:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie and Stefan Brands are in a group that attacks Google through the FTC

IT WAS ONLY last week that we found an anti-Google coalition created by Microsoft. Whether EPIC is yet another one would be hard to say for sure, but it is not likely because of age and history (track record). Whether Microsoft has influence in this group is another matter altogether.

=> an anti-Google coalition created by Microsoft

There are many reports at the moment about this group called EPIC going against Google. It was not easy to find a Microsoft connection (we did investigate this briefly), but the comments in TechDirt offer one possibility and also demonstrate that it’s a repeated pattern.

=> ↺ reports | ↺ comments in TechDirt

I went over to their site to see who is behind this group. http://epic.org/epic/advisory_board.html Not surprised to find someone from Microsoft. Oh, lool, there’s’ is Ray Ozzie. However, they also have Vint Cerf, Joi Ito and Bruce Schneier as advisers. Wierd.

Someone who poses as “Ray Ozzie – Groove Man” writes:

See guys, if the FTC shuts down Google services, everyone has to go elsewhere for their collaboration tools. What was Ray Ozzie doing before Microsoft? Running a corp that made a collaboration tool called Groove! That tool was dead before he got on at M$, and it’s really dead now (just an extra piece of Office). They are after Google to increase the penetration of Groove and Sharepoint, plain and simple.

There is another Microsoft employee in this group: Stefan Brands.

To the group’s defence, at the beginning of the decade it did have a motion against Microsoft (Passport). This does not mean that the pendulum has never swung the other way.

We too have complained to the FTC (about the Microsoft-funded Association for Competitive Technology). █

=> complained to the FTC

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