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● 09.05.11

●● Cablegate: Government of Ireland Pushes Charlie McCreevy to Help Microsoft Against Antitrust Regulators

Posted in Antitrust, Europe, Microsoft at 8:27 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Familiar faces and sympathetic countries offer protection to a monopoly abuser

IRELAND is well known as Microsoft’s centre of tax dodge in Europe. The exchange is one of little or no benefit to the Irish economy (which not so long ago stood on its last leg), it’s about rich people trying to evade tax using loopholes and tax havens.

=> ↺ well known as Microsoft’s centre of tax dodge in Europe

In a fascinating Cablegate cable, pro-software patents dunce Charlie McCreevy is being addressed indirectly. This is different from Austria's position:

=> ↺ pro-software patents dunce Charlie McCreevy | Austria's position

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SUBJECT: IRELAND SHARES USG CONCERNS ON MICROSOFT

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 B. YOUNG-SOILA E-MAIL OF 3/13/06 

Classified By: Political-Economic Counselor Mary E. Daly; Reasons 1.4 (

B) and (D).

(C) Ireland shares USG concerns about the Commission's

treatment of Microsoft (which has its European operations

center and large-scale R&D programs in Ireland), according to

Ronald Long, Assistant Secretary General in the Department of

Enterprise, Trade, and Employment (DETE), with whom Post

discussed reftel demarche on March 28 and 29. Long, who has

responsibility for competition issues in DETE and claims to

have written the 1991 EU Copyright Directive for Computer

Programs, noted that DETE Minister Micheal Martin had

recently written to EU Internal Market Commissioner (and

former Irish Finance Minister) Charlie McCreevy to alert the

Commission to the GOI's concerns. Long elaborated that the

GOI saw the Commission as less than transparent in its

evaluation of the interoperability information supplied by

Microsoft in compliance with the Commission's antitrust

ruling. The GOI, he added, worried that the Commission's

dealings with Microsoft were making the ground rules for

competition cases unclear, a trend that should concern any

company operating in Europe. He asked to stay in touch with

Post as the Microsoft case proceeded.

KENNY

Got to love the part about “less than transparent” in relation to the EU Commission. Lack of transparency is actually the Microsoft problem which the EU Commission was trying to address. What is this, projection? █

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