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> I don't really know this space very well, and still have bad feelings toward Microsoft for their behavior in the 80s and 90s, but is MS actually abusing their
by gwd 3y ago
> I don't really know this space very well, and still have bad feelings toward Microsoft for their behavior in the 80s and 90s, but is MS actually abusing their monopoly position here?
It's not illegal to have a monopoly, but one thing that's illegal (theoretically anyway) us using your monopoly in one area to gain market share in another area.
But it is kind of counter-intuitive to say that the linchpin of the entire Microsoft juggernaut fundamentally rests on their amazingly functional spreadsheet (which it sort of sounds like constitutes an actually useable "no-code" platform). Supposing that were true, what would be the strategy for people trying to bring about "The Year of the Linux Desktop"? Try to get LibreOffice or Gnumeric up to parity? Or try to get documentation / education for Jupyter / Python up to parity?