[clug] Re: Bing use by Linux enthusiasts

[Sam Couter]

Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:
> The AT&T case AFAIK was about a telephone monopoly in the US.  The
> IBM case about a monopoly on mainframes.

AT&T and IBM both had penalties and restrictions imposed upon them that
were effective at the time. AT&T were busted up (they're all back
together now but that's another story) and IBM were restricted from
bundling hardware and software or something. They were two examples of
doing it right, even though what AT&T has become is now an example of
doing it wrong.

Microsoft were found guilty, not of being a monopoly because that's not
illegal, but of leveraging their desktop OS monopoly to squish
competitors in other markets such as web browsers. The result of that
conviction was... approximately nothing. That's doing it wrong.
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