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Part of Microsoft's "punishment" for monopoly practices was to give away free copies of Office to schools. With that, every parent has to have a copy of Office

by prirun 5y ago

Part of Microsoft's "punishment" for monopoly practices was to give away free copies of Office to schools. With that, every parent has to have a copy of Office to read .doc files from their school. Ingenious! They use their punishment to increase their market share. I don't think breaking up companies should be the emphasis, but rather the merging of companies. AT&T was already broken up once. Now look at them.

adamcstephens 5y ago
Yep, preventing the mergers first is part of the solution too. Unfortunately, we’ve allowed too many, and need to break up companies across industries. edit: and figure out a way to tell future generations not to give up on these laws next time? To your point, they may find themselves in this same place again.