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You based your business on a proprietary platform. No formal contract was covering your rights. What are you complaining about?
by pif 10y ago
You based your business on a proprietary platform. No formal contract was covering your rights. What are you complaining about?
- leereeves 10y agoIllegal anti-competitive behavior, perhaps.
- mrmrcoleman 10y agoLegally you're correct, but where's the sense of fair play?
- rplnt 10y agoSo you can't complain now? Microsoft is pushing its own (inferior) solution and making it harder for other vendors to compete. While we can debate whether it should be fine for them to do that, there are laws limiting monopolies from this kind of (maybe not this exact case) behavior. Also, it works the other way around - you wouldn't need to complain if there was a formal contract.
- Veen 10y agoYou may not have any legal recourse, but you can certainly complain. It's reasonable to expect companies to adhere to standards of decency and respect. If they don't, complain or they'll never learn. Also, PR matters, so complaining loudly does impact policy.
- jonathankoren 10y agoI suggest you read up on The United States v Microsoft.[0] It was kind of a big deal. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....