predatory innovation

Really, this one was a collaboration between another Misesian and myself.

Cross-posted to Mises.org/blog:

Google's World

B.K. Marcus

Google's new tool makes inroads into areas that belong to others for now, and raises the question: how long before Google supplants Windows?

And the inevitable next question: how long before the Justice Department goes after Google for violation of anti-trust?

Will Microsoft claim to be Google's victim? Will Bill Gates have completed his conversion from peaceful, a-political billionaire to professional victim in need of mercantilist protection?

There are a lot of Windows machines in Washington DC...