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Standard Oil? Microsoft? Though these companies ended up getting split up. We didn't make anti-trust laws out of the goodness of our hearts but because doing
by rtpg 9y ago
Standard Oil? Microsoft?
Though these companies ended up getting split up.
We didn't make anti-trust laws out of the goodness of our hearts but because doing nothing created monopolies.
- afsina 9y agoOn Standard Oil: https://mises.org/library/100-years-myths-about-standard-oil https://mises.org/library/100-years-myths-about-standard-oil
- icebraining 9y agoMicrosoft is built on State-granted monopolies, like patents.
- rtpg 9y agoPatents? Maybe I'd understand if you were talking about IP law (in which case we're too far apart) but to my knowledge patent threats were not really the tool of MSFT in the 90s. Instead they would opt for more classic techniques like threatening resellers by withholding access to their products.
- icebraining 9y agoThe MSFT in the 90s didn't have a monopoly that had lasted for a decade. My point is not that companies can't achieve market dominance, but that it's almost always short-lived - unless they have the power of the State propping them up. Like the multiple patents that MS got during the 90s, and which have extended until this day.