Re:Should digital monopolies be broken up?
by wpietri on Friday November 28, 2014 @12:24PM
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It turns out that anticompetitive, monopoly-maintaining behavior is breaking the law. It didn't used to be, which is why we got antitrust law in the first place.
Every company tries to gain market share, but society, which creates the markets in the first place, suffers if they gain too much. That's one of the structural problems of capitalism.
If we are in favor of healthy free markets, we can't stand by as they decay into monopolies, which are not markets at all.
>Binding two of your products to gather[sic] is not breaking the law. Trying to achive[sic] suggess[sic] is not breaking the law.
Trying to exploit your OS monopoly to improve sales of your web server is breaking the law.
> So you give them a friendly interface, like the browser choice screen that MS actually implemented.
So Microsoft should give you a featrue to download from the competition. If anything the would just not tell anybody were the alternatives are and give people a easy way to download IE. So you would end up with the same problem, everybody would just be downloading IE.
It was enougth to give people access to the internet and everybody went and download the alternatives.