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Re:Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing by ahoyhere on Friday April 30, 2010 @10:42AM (#1308270)
The entire argument hinged around "cutting off the air supply to Netscape," which was Microsoft's defining anti-competitive (ergo monopolistic) practice -- for people who only heard about monopolies from the major news network soundbites.

This is just ludicrous:

> Microsoft may have destroyed Netscape, and Digital Research, and dozens of other companies, with illegal abuse of their monopoly powers. But nothing they did threatened to bring the industry to a shuddering halt, ceasing all development of new and better ways of doing things. Microsoft never made Haskell illegal.

Yes, they strongarmed every OEM within an inch of their lives -- and they actually stifled competition -- meanwhile Apple just won't let you crosscompile apps for their phone.

Yikes.

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Re:Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing by JamieEi on Friday April 30, 2010 @11:30AM (#1308397)
His argument really hinges on it being rediculous for Apple to dictate what language people can program in. Comparisons to any other company are just a rhetorical device. I actually think he overstates the effects of the Windows monopoly, but even if you think he understates it that doesn't make what Apple is doing ok.
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