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Yeah, and that's a clear violation of competition law. MS didn't get away with it in the past. So how come Apple does?

• GeekyBear 5y ago
  What do you imagine that Microsoft got in trouble for? >Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, which stated that Microsoft's dominance of the x86-based personal computer operating systems market constituted a monopoly, and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to that monopoly, including Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks, Linux, and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.#Judgment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
  • shmerl 5y ago
    For browsers quite explicitly.
    • GeekyBear 5y ago
      Yes, Netscape was one of the companies Microsoft set out to crush, but it was hardly the only one.
• threeseed 5y ago
  > Yeah, and that's a clear violation of competition law Can you clarify your legal background and/or expertise on competition law and the technical specifics that you believe makes this definitive statement hold true.