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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by nemothekid on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:51AM (#39591182)
>After all, Microsoft didn’t stop people from making money off their platform or modifying their computers

This is incredible whitewashing of Microsoft. Microsoft didn’t stop people from modifying their computers? Part of the anti trust case was Microsoft ending licenses with OEMs if they dared to sell a PC with Linux installed.

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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by kayodelycaon on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:53AM (#39591851)
I was referring to after purchase. Wasn't it still possible to install Linux on computers that came with Windows?

Granted, drivers were a massive issue.

And if anything, this only furthers the point that Apple isn't anything close to what Microsoft was doing.

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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by orwin on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:24AM (#39601554)
I think they fiddled with the bootloader of some pc vendors in the mid-90s,but we're quickly told to stop that. It might have destroyed a competitor though.
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