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The thing that should be illegal is the kind of secret deals that MS makes with PC manufacturers; see this for example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/20
by marvy 10y ago
The thing that should be illegal is the kind of secret deals that MS makes with PC manufacturers; see this for example:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/20/be_inc_sues_microsoft/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/20/be_inc_sues_microsof...
- shmerl 10y agoIndeed.
- scholia 10y agoThe 1990s called, they want their anti-Microsoft bigotry back.
- marvy 10y agoBut this hasn't changed since the 90s, has it?
- scholia 10y agoOne of the conditions imposed by the US Justice Department in the anti-trust settlement was that Microsoft was prevented from doing separate deals with all the main manufacturers. That was probably in place for a dozen years. Did you see what a difference it made? You didn't, so I'll tell you: it pushed up the average price of Windows and made Microsoft more profitable.