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neither deserve criticism for selling something people are willing to buy.
by nazgulnarsil 18y ago
neither deserve criticism for selling something people are willing to buy.
- jrockway 18y agoI think Microsoft deserves criticism for strong-arming hardware vendors into making Windows a mandatory component of all new computers. (I thought this was amusing back when IBM still made ThinkPads, and the phrase, "IBM recommends genuine Microsoft Windows XP." was right below their logo. You know that was there to satisfy a contract from a monopoly, not because they actually recommended it. I am going to go ahead and consider that evil.)
- nazgulnarsil 18y agothey were able to do that only because of government enforcing their monopoly. corporations will always try to subvert the free market because perfect competition drives margins down to almost nothing. But without a a government to use courts to enforce their monopolies corporations can not stop competition.