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Re:Why Don’t People Talk About Breaking Up Microsoft? by dblohm7 on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:17PM (#20680660)
Having a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing that monopoly power to take over other markets is.
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Re:Why Don’t People Talk About Breaking Up Microsoft? by wardbradt on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:36PM (#20680822)
I initially thought you were wrong, but you are not.

“Monopolization” [0], which a Wikipedia section on “Sherman Act of 1890” [1] lead me to, is maintaining a monopoly “through conduct deemed unlawfully exclusionary. The mere fact that conduct disadvantages rivals does not... constitute... exclusionary conduct.”

I am most surprised that the Sherman Act explicitly targets monopolization, not monopolies.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopolization

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

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