Bill Gates “US IT company splits against antitrust charges and opposes”

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has begun an investigation alleging that U.S. IT companies are alleged to violate antitrust laws. Among them, Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, is drawing attention by revealing that he does not agree with the division of a large US IT company.

Bill Gates said in a foreign press interview that if you want to get rid of corporate behavior, you have to tell us what is forbidden. He added that splitting a company into two would not be a solution to preventing the two companies from doing evil. He also argued that the tax savings measures of major IT companies such as Apple are completely legal, and argued that politicians need to change the rules if they want to eliminate the motive to curb taxes to a minimum. He also stressed that it is the responsibility of the society and the government to ensure that technological innovations of major IT companies do not adversely affect people’s radicalization and factional news.

Bill Gates and Microsoft have a past exposed to antitrust lawsuits. In 1998, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for using an unfair strategy to strengthen its monopoly position in the PC market, and in June 2000, the US District Court ordered Microsoft to divide the two companies. Before the US Court of Appeals repealed the division order in June of the following year, it was investigated that Microsoft hired huge lobbyists and paid huge political donations.

Bill Gates himself once said that major IT companies are now learning lessons from the Microsoft complaint. In fact, it is speculated that Microsoft is excluded from the current US Department of Justice investigation, and some say that correcting IT companies’ actions may suggest what they have proved.