Google Is Suing The usa Government [Legal]

Uh oh. Looks as if Google is rushing to take on the federal government within the courtrooms. The justifications? Conspiracy theories, Microsoft, good ol’ Google Apps, and apparent favoritism.

A court battle with the Feds seems like something the quest giant would wish to bypass. But a suit filed by Google last week doesn’t have anything to do with antitrust troubles. Instead, the suit accuses the federal government of failing to offer Google Apps an excellent shake when looking for an internet-based documents system. The unindicted co-conspirator in all of this: Microsoft.

According to the lawsuit (hat tip: CNET ), Google never had of venture to host the dep. of the inner’s document system because the DOI required the winning system to join Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite-an ” arbitrary and capricious” requirement. In a letter sent to the DOI this past Spring, Google complained, ” We believe these Microsoft-based requirements would violate the Competition in Contracting Act because they bear no rational relationship to the DOI’s needs, usually are not written to augment competition or innovation, and unduly restrict competition.”

This isn’t the first Internet-related lawsuit that the federal government has had to address in recent days. Last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed three suits against the dept of Justice, demanding records about limitations that restrict electronic surveillance.

But the govt withholding records is nothing new. Alleged favoritism towards Microsoft, however, is a complete different deal. Because Google and Microsoft are currently doing battle over the sphere of cloud computing, a local it truly is greatly up for grabs, it seems like the oldsters at Mountain View have a lovely strong case here – and the result can have wide-reaching implications for both companies.

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