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>no one was harmed except for the competitors who wanted to compete with Microsoft on its own platform. That's not the point. The point is that "services rende
by rtpg 9y ago
>no one was harmed except for the competitors who wanted to compete with Microsoft on its own platform.
That's not the point. The point is that "services rendered by MSFT" was _not_ a free market. Going against the initial thesis (that monopolies only exist due to gov't).
- lend000 9y agoIs it Microsoft's job to provide a "free market" in a new market that they create? Of course not. Agents in a free market can certainly create sub-markets with their own rules, so long as they don't violate the rights of anyone in the broader market. And to my initial point, government helped Microsoft. Their dominance might have been shorter lived otherwise.