Re:Monopoly, is it a problem?
by rbanffy on Sunday April 25, 2010 @04:29PM
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Microsoft?
They abused monopoly power to force their OEMs to do their bidding, all the way from punishing IBM for shipping OS/2 computers to preventing Dell and HP from placing software such as AOL's (MSN competitor) and Netscape (we all know that).
They have achieved monopoly and near-monopoly in several categories (office applications, IDEs) and have used it to raise barriers to entry. Every IDE available for Windows is either targeted to a small niche or free and cross-platform.
They abused monopoly power to force their OEMs to do their bidding, all the way from punishing IBM for shipping OS/2 computers to preventing Dell and HP from placing software such as AOL's (MSN competitor) and Netscape (we all know that).
They have achieved monopoly and near-monopoly in several categories (office applications, IDEs) and have used it to raise barriers to entry. Every IDE available for Windows is either targeted to a small niche or free and cross-platform.