French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies

The Cloud Infrastructure Providers In Europe (CISPE) lobby group has welcomed an agreement among French lawmakers that it claims "will enshrine fair software licensing for cloud customers in French law." The subject being tackled in France has reared its head among multiple competition agencies, with the UK collating feedback …

[Anonymous Coward]

Google complaining about monopolies made me laugh!

[Doctor Syntax]

There are enough for everyone to have something to moan about.

[EricB123]

Same same

"Google complaining about monopolies made me laugh!"

It takes one to know one.

[Will Godfrey]

It's Everywhere

I'm struggling to find any market, hardware, software, even quite unrelated non-IT goods, that hasn't been commandeered by just one company or cartel.

[ecofeco]

Re: It's Everywhere

In general, every market segment in the world is owned and controlled by just a handful companies within that segment, using dozens and dozen of different brand names to distract from this fact.

[IGotOut]

Waahhhh...it takes so long.

Hi Google. Here's your fine for anti-competitive behaviour.

"We're going to fight this for the next 20 years in the courts".

A pox on them all