These competition laws are purposely vague, contradictory and elastic in order to hand government the ominous, unbridled power to persecute virtually any company it pleases. Other laws properly exist under free enterprise to protect consumers and competitors from physical coercion, fraud and property theft. What the competition laws do is make ambition, creativity and superlative performance a crime because these are the virtues that lead to increased market share in a free market.
The antitrust laws used to attack Microsoft serve as a vehicle for envious competitors. Any society that regards Microsoft--a creative, productive and beneficent enterprise--as its enemy, is a society that is morally sick and headed for hell. People need protection from coercive and omnipotent governments, not from the beneficial products that Microsoft and other companies provide via freedom of competition in a free market.
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