Who Said It: Larry Downes, a fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society and CIO Insight columnist.

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In Context: In his CIO Insight column from earlier this year, Downes wrote about how things are going badly for Microsoft overseas. The software giant had been fined over a billion dollars by the European Union for failing to comply with its Windows-related antitrust rulings. And Korean regulators had ruled that the company violates its antitrust laws as well—all decisions the company has appealed. "Some of Microsoft's injuries are no doubt self-inflicted, the result of an early naiveté about the applicability of old laws to their new-economy business," Downes wrote, "as well as the company's trademark sneer at complaints by smaller software companies about unfair competition."

Find Out More: See A Tale of Two Microsofts.