Remarks of Dr. Edwin Locke at the CMDC Press Conference on US v. Microsoft Good afternoon. I want to address four issues regarding anti-trust as they apply to the Microsoft case.
Vision is the ability to see the future potential of a product, technology, or market.
Anti-trust law undermines both of these. The standards of what constitute a violation are constantly changing because anti-trust policies are created after the fact. Every new idea, discovery, strategy or invention identified by a large company is suspect because, if these insights will lead to great and great success and market dominance, they may be illegal. Poor ideas, mediocre products, trivial inventions, ineffectual or semi-effectual strategies. Anti-trust law paralyzes the best thinkers, those with the widest scale visions and most audacious plans.