Antitrust complaint against Android is an attack on open source

This is why Google now spends vast sums on its own lobbying efforts: Learning From Microsoft's Mistakes, Google Invests Heavily In Influence http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/01/learning-from-micros...

Whether it's a sensible approach is another matter. This warning from the Wall Street Journal is pertinent:

In 1999, economist Milton Friedman issued a warning to technology executives at a Cato Institute conference: "Is it really in the self-interest of Silicon Valley to set the government on Microsoft? Your industry, the computer industry, moves so much more rapidly than the legal process that by the time this suit is over, who knows what the shape of the industry will be? Never mind the fact that the human energy and the money that will be spent in hiring my fellow economists, as well as in other ways, would be much more productively employed in improving your products. It's a waste!"

He predicted: "You will rue the day when you called in the government. From now on, the computer industry, which has been very fortunate in that it has been relatively free of government intrusion, will experience a continuous increase in government regulation. Antitrust very quickly becomes regulation. Here again is a case that seems to me to illustrate the suicide impulse of the business community."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732353980457826...

There's an old rule that says Do Unto Others As You Would Be Done By. In other words, don't start whining when the shit you sent around comes around.