谷歌（Google）首席法律顾问攻击苹果（Apple）和微软（Microsoft）并呼吁政府进行干预的公开信激起了一片怒潮，其中最突出的要数布莱恩•霍尔在其名为智能手机战（Smartphone Wars）的博客上发表的一篇文章。

    核心段落如下：

    “假如你垄断了某项业务，从中获得垄断性利润，然后把这些利润用到另一个行业，以便‘免费派送’自己的竞争对手（必须）收费的产品，从而迅速攫取‘支配性’的市场份额，你会……像个怨妇一样哭哭啼啼吗？”

    假如你不明白“像个怨妇一样哭哭啼啼”是指什么，不妨读读布莱恩•鲁曼德发表在谷歌官方博客上的公开信。

    假如你只知道谷歌有超高速的搜索引擎以及神奇的地图，恐怕不会认为谷歌是一家垄断企业。如果是这样，霍尔很高兴为你一一列举。他列举了10个事例，直指谷歌（他称之为“一家毫无创新的公司”）利用自己在某项业务中的统治地位进入新的市场，摧毁其中现有的企业。这正是典型的非法垄断行为。

    霍尔列举的10个例子原文摘录如下：

    • Yelp受欢迎了？复制他们的信息，把Yelp挤到页面的最下方，同时将Google Places和评论置于页面顶端。

    • Groupon拒绝出售？花上其它业务赚的数十亿美元摧毁他们。

    • Twitter 和Facebook在搜索方面创新？拿走他们的内容。如果他们胆敢阻止就哭鼻子，然后砸数十亿美元，遏制他们增长，最好摧毁他们。

    • 苹果（Apple）正在致力于开发触摸屏智能手机？从另一项业务赚的钱里拿出几十亿美元，竭尽所能地抄袭过来，甚至包括“拖拽”技术和应用程序。

    • 智能手机操作系统需要运行Java程序。直接拿来，为己所用。

    • 需要地图定位技术，而Skyhook不愿出售？花上数十亿美元的垄断利润，向合作伙伴施压，将Skyhook排挤出局。

    • 收购大型旅游搜索网站。

    • 自称开源派，但从不分享任何与核心业务——搜索相关的技术，也不分享任何与自身盈利来源——广告相关的技术。

    • 自称是开放和标准的支持者，但却严加控制对自己智能手机操作系统的访问权。

    • 与所有财大气粗的垄断机构一样，他们花费数百万在华盛顿聘请高价说客以及公关团队，服务于自己的的直接利益。

    他可以继续举出更多的例子，他确实也这样做了。完全是典型的布莱恩•霍尔式演说。

    注意：科技博客Business Insider全文发布了霍尔的这篇文章，但对其中个别字眼做了修改。但是霍尔原来的版本更精彩，点击此处可以阅读原始版本。

    译者：项航

    The open letter by Google's (GOOG) chief legal counsel attacking Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) and calling for government intervention (see here) has unleashed a flood of outraged responses, but none quite so full throated as the one posted by Brian S Hall on his Smartphone Wars blog.

    The nut paragraph:

    "If you have a monopoly business and generate monopoly profits and take those monopoly profits to another industry and *gave away* what your competitors (must) charge for, which led you to quickly capture the *dominant* market share, would you…

    …whine like a bitch?"

    If you don't get the "whine like a bitch" reference, read Brian Drummond's letter on Google's official blog.

    If you have trouble seeing Google as a monopoly -- and if you only knew Google from its lightning-fast search engine or its marvelous maps, you might -- Hall is happy to enumerate. He lists 10 instances of Google ("a company that innovates at nothing," he says) using its dominant position in one business to enter new markets and destroy existing businesses -- a textbook definition of illegal monopolistic behavior.

    Below: Hall's 10 examples, verbatim.

    • Yelp gets popular? Copy their info, shove Yelp to the bottom of the page and put Google Places and reviews at the top.

    • Groupon won't sell? Spend billions from other businesses to destroy them.

    • Twitter and Facebook innovate on search? Take their content, whine when they try and stop you then spend billions to prevent their growth and hopefully destroy them.

    • Apple working on a touchscreen smartphone? Spend billions from another business and copy everything you can, down to swipes and apps.

    • Need a smartphone operating system with Java. Take Java and use it for your own ends.

    • Need a location mapping technology and Skyhook won't sell? Spend billions from your monopoly profits and strongarm your partners and drive Skyhook out of business.

    • Buy up the big travel search sites.

    • Claim you are open source but share nothing related to what your business claims to be about -- search, and nothing related to how you make your money -- advertising

    • Claim you are open and standards based but control who gets access to your smartphone operating system

    • Like all rich monopolists, they spend millions hiring high priced lobbyists and public relations teams inside the Beltway -- for their direct benefit

    He could go on, and he does. It's a classic Brian S Hall rant.

    NOTE: Business Insider has reposted Hall's item in full, but not before removing some of its pungency by replacing the word "pussy" throughout with "[lame]." The piece is better in the original form, which you can get here.