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Gonna need a cite on that logic. The MS case was about including IE with Windows for free. With Google, the products are paid for by the ad revenues instead of Windows and Office licenses.

> Microsoft Teams is a great example of an anticompetitive bundle if you want one.

Also true.




>> The MS case was about including IE with Windows for free.

This is exactly where the anticompetitive effects of bundling arise.

>> With Google, the products are paid for by the ad revenues instead of Windows and Office licenses.

That’s why it’s going to be impossible to argue that this is bundling in the anticompetitive sense.


You keep saying that, but no cites. Somehow I doubt the Clayton act specifies that bundles can include ad products, but not software licenses. Bundling is bundling, let a judge decide.




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