Goliath's Slingshot

When Google adopted “don’t be evil” as the cornerstone of its corporate code of conduct, what it really meant was “don’t be Microsoft.” The company’s loathing for its neighbor to the north was on display again today in a remarkably contemptuous broadside launched against Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Yahoo by Google’s top lawyer, David Drummond. Drummond does not mince words. Microsoft’s “hostile bid,” he writes, is an attack on “the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.”

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