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This isn't all that important, but what is important is that Google (unless this has changed) spends the most lobbying of any U.S. company. They don't want to fall victim to what happened to Microsoft in the 90s.

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Do you have a source for this? According to opensecrets.org, they're in the top 2 for tech companies (their major rival is Comcast), but they spend much less than Blue Cross/Blue Shield or the National Association of Realtors. This has been true since at least 2010 (as far back as I checked).

They do sometimes spend more than Boeing, which I wouldn't have guessed.

I meant to preface with "tech company." Google is only 9th overall, though they might have moved up in the past year

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/21/us-google-lobbying...

I don't think "Microsoft", "90's" and "victim" really go well together unless you're talking about Netscape as the victim.

Its more Microsoft sleep waked into more than one legal problem that if they had been less politically naive woudl not have happened or been as bad.

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