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Interesting, I went back and read the settlement, and definitely did not realize at the time that all of the terms of the settlement have long since expired: ht
by yuliyp 5y ago
Interesting, I went back and read the settlement, and definitely did not realize at the time that all of the terms of the settlement have long since expired: https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/503526/download https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/503526/downlo...
What's amazing to me is how much platformization has happened since then, especially in mobile, where even though no one company is a monopoly, Google, Microsoft, and Apple are definitely flexing their "we own the platform" muscles quite as strongly as Microsoft did in the late 90s (or stronger), to the detriment of both users and developers.