Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985)

Re:Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985) by simonh on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:23PM (#15743871)

And communism wipes out all private companies completely replacing them with monolithic state monopolies.

But in the case at hand it was a bit more than ‘the game’. MS broke the law multiple times and were at minimum deeply unethical in several other cases, and were held to account for it. Not enough in my opinion, but it was there.

Ultimately though they also made the right moves at the right times and their competitors didn’t.

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Re:Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985) by WalterGR on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:23AM (#15746976)

MS broke the law multiple times

Could you expand on that?

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that it's not against the law to be a monopoly, but it is against the law to abuse one's monopoly position.

What I'm hazy on is whether antitrust enforcement defendants are informed by the government that they're a monopoly prior to being charged with abusing said monopoly.

Is that the case, or no?

Did Microsoft break any laws that it wouldn't have broken had the government not decided that they were a monopoly?

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Re:Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985) by hasenj on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:57PM (#15745174)

The "black markets" in officially communist countries tend to be diverse, though.

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