The history is antitrust rulings are what prevents monopolies of the past from dominating the next era. IBM was constrained by an antitrust ruling. Which gave

The history is antitrust rulings are what prevents monopolies of the past from dominating the next era. IBM was constrained by an antitrust ruling. Which gave Microsoft an opening. Microsoft itself was then subject to a similar action 20 years later. So it's been another 20 years since then, so the time is ripe to clip googles wings.