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how is that abuse, though? is it against the law? IANAL, but I would think not. I mean, many people put links to their other products or services on the web
by fuzztester 2y ago
how is that abuse, though?
is it against the law?
IANAL, but I would think not.
I mean, many people put links to their other products or services on the web page of one of their products or services.
- TheCleric 2y agoIt is, if you are leveraging one monopoly to attempt to gain more. This is what happened with Microsoft and Internet Explorer (via the Windows monopoly)[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
- magicalist 2y agoHad Microsoft merely provided advertised IE with Windows there never would have been a suit. Even bundling alone would have been a hard case to make. They did far more than just ship IE with Windows.
- TheCleric 2y agoOh I agree. I merely meant that they were leveraging an existing monopoly to try to create another one via unfair practices.
- fuzztester 2y agolinking to my answer in other parts of this thread, since the point and my reply are the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166997