“While we have been talking to regulators, we don’t know what their position is,” Schmidt said. “We don’t know if they think it’s a good deal or poor deal.”
While Google is in no way guilty of the kind of behavior that got Microsoft into hot water, not caring what anyone thinks was perhaps the most disastrous error of hubris that Microsoft’s Bill Gates (he is pictured on the stand here) made when the federal government came at him and took him to trial.
There was one thing that Schmidt said yesterday at the press conference that I do agree with: “There is a natural fear of things getting larger.”
Yes, Eric. And, naturally, more people than ever fear Google.
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