AqD wrote:
High Plains Thumper wrote:
According to the US Department of Justice, Microsoft engaged
in anticompetitive licensing of its operating system to
dominate the competition:
*1994:*
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f0000/0046.htm
I don't see how this can cause anti-competition. Windows is a
M$ product, and they're free to do anything with the API they
provide - which they're NOT obliged to provide and there is no
guarantee that any 3rd-party softwares should be able to run
on windows.
If software companies find Microsoft unfriendly on this issue,
why don't they switch to other platforms or make their own?
Nobody is forcing anyone to use windows or to develop windows
applications.
The US Department of Justice is ridiculous.
Oh, really? Justice Kollar-Kotelly clarified that Microsoft is
indeed a monopoly:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/msdoj/2002/Lit11-1.pdf
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
STATE OF NEW YORK, et al., Plaintiffs v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION,
Defendant.
Civil Action No. 98-1233 (CKK) MEMORANDUM OPINION
Page 27
[quote]
It bears repeating that the monopoly in this case was not found
to have been illegally acquired, see United States v. Microsoft,
56 F.3d 1448, 1452 (D.C. Cir. 1995),24 but only to have been
illegally maintained.
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