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