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No law, as far as I am aware, forbids a monopoly from producing a crappy product. Antitrust law comes into play when a competitor offers a less-crappy product
by sethg 16y ago
No law, as far as I am aware, forbids a monopoly from producing a crappy product. Antitrust law comes into play when a competitor offers a less-crappy product and the monopoly tries to drive the competitor out of business.
- rbanffy 16y agoNo, but a company that has a monopoly cannot manipulate a market by making a product selectively crappy, like a search engine that fails to find its competitors or a program that fails to run on a competing, compatible OS (early win3 on DR-DOS).
- sethg 16y agoYes, if you make your product selectively crappy in order to undermine competition, it’s an antitrust problem. Microsoft making Windows not run on DR-DOS is an antitrust problem. Microsoft making Windows fail at multiuser security is not an antitrust problem.
- rbanffy 16y ago> Microsoft making Windows fail at multiuser security is not an antitrust problem. No. That was incompetence.