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Google has reportedly reached out to Yahoo to thwart Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid. And in case that doesn’t work Google has already started working policymakers. Simply put, the games have begun (Techmeme). Get ready for the FUD fest folks.

This is how the article on ZDNet started out with the latest news on this hot topic.

This got me to thinking back a long time ago when the Internet was just starting to become a popular topic for the normal folks. And dear old Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to launch a competitor to the Internet. The result … it failed miserably.

The next monopoly move made by Microsoft was to embed Internet Explorer into the Operating system. A move that was very much opposed by a company called Netscape. And again, thank goodness for that because we wouldn’t have such a nice array of browsers that actually perform properly and securely. I also do not think that IE would be nearly the quality product it is today if it weren’t for the competition.

So keeping these past events in mind, I would whole heartedly support a move by Google to … once again … make an attempt to keep Microsoft honest and out of the monopoly game.