Comment by alexeisadeski3
11 years ago
>Don't you think that Microsoft should have been reprimanded over their abuse of the OS market to gain control of the browser market?
Absolutely not!
11 years ago
>Don't you think that Microsoft should have been reprimanded over their abuse of the OS market to gain control of the browser market?
Absolutely not!
Why?
It's their OS, they can do as they please.
As history showed, there wasn't even an MS monopoly in existence. OSX became viable in the early oughts, Linux was always around, and now people write of the death of the PC.
Regardless, abuse of market dominance (note I don't use the overused 'M' word) increases incentives for competitors to enter the marketplace.
It's got nothing to do with monopoly!!! Apple or Linux have nothing to do with it; the ruling being for behaviour in the period that preceded 2000. Microsoft were in a dominant position in one market and leveraged this dominace to gain dominance in another. This is anti-competative. for the final time; a monopoly is not illeagal in and of itself, neither is it antitrust.
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