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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by sbuk on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:40AM (#26832645)
The difference here of course is that Microsoft we’re shown to be threatening to withdraw OEMs licenses if they provided Netscape preinstalled. They also threatened the same if OEMs provided alternative OSS such as Linux.

Apple on the other hand are preventing alternative rendering engines. It’s a very different situation. That’s not to say that it isn’t problematic, but it not as simple or as cut and dried as “but Microsoft and IE!?!”

Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by izacus on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:43AM (#26832670)
It's actually even simpler - Apple doesn't even open an option to even have any kind of threats for withdrawing licenses because they own everything and use hard DRM to prevent any alternatives.