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Re:How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates? by WalterBright on Saturday November 05, 2011 @04:23AM (#3199283)
I never understood what was wrong with bundling the browser with the OS. Every OS comes with a bundled browser, including Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OS X, the iPod, the Kindle, darn near everything. I'm annoyed that there's no bundled browser in my Roku box.
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Re:How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates? by blrgeek on Saturday November 05, 2011 @06:42AM (#3199469)
They were not convicted for giving a browser free with their OS. They forced their OEMs to supply with only IE, and not with Netscape. If the OEMs supplied with Netscape they would lose volume discounts & mktg money.

Since no OEM could sell without MS, and losing the discounts would be death in a super price competitive market, this essentially meant Netscape couldn't use the same OEM channel to market.

That's misusing a monopoly to enter a different market. And that's what they were convicted of.

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