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Read the bill. Read the "no sunshine" and antitrust parts of it.

It is dead obvious that this bill is a power grab by someone, who intends to become a heck of an abusive monopoly in anything resembling software.

Once we have realized that, then we only need figure out whose power grab it is. After that our natural allies are anyone and everyone in that monopolist's way. The bigger, more powerful, and more influential, the better.

I think I make a pretty good case that the company which stands to seize power here is Microsoft. And AOL happens to be one of the biggest companies standing in Microsoft's way. That makes AOL a powerful party with a vested interest (if they only realize it) in blocking this bill.

Does that make sense?

In reply to I missed it a couple of times as well by tilly
in thread The SSSCA, Microsoft's answer to anti-trust? by tilly

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