Re:Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project V...
by SkyMarshal on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:03PM
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Exactly, that's illegal under US anti-trust law. It's called product tying.
It's legal to achieve a monopoly by competitive means, via pure excellence in product and operations. But it's illegal to then attempt to achieve another monopoly in a different product by tying it to your legal monopoly product.
That was part of the US DoJ suit against Microsoft in the 90s.
It's legal to achieve a monopoly by competitive means, via pure excellence in product and operations. But it's illegal to then attempt to achieve another monopoly in a different product by tying it to your legal monopoly product.
That was part of the US DoJ suit against Microsoft in the 90s.