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Re:Competitor access to telco fiber would fix “net neutrality” by nitrogen on Saturday November 10, 2012 @07:00PM (#4768223)
When people say Microsoft had a monopoly, they mean a de facto monopoly, rather than a de jure monopoly.
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Re:Competitor access to telco fiber would fix “net neutrality” by javert on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:04AM (#4773331)
That terminology is conceptually invalid.

A "de facto monopoly" is just "very successful in the market."

There is no need for a separate concept for this, and if there were, it would not be appropriate to overload with the pre-existing term "monopoly" that means something different.

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