[Swordmaker]

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[E Rocc]

Apple tried to build a vertical monopoly, building all the machines, all the peripherals, and even all the software.

While I think this should be legal, the suits against Microsoft were akin to suing Toyota for refusing to sell a car with a Ford transmission....or with no transmission (allowing the owner to install their own).

Microsoft may not themselves be innovators, but they establish a standard that allows innovations to reach a wide market.

[cybervyk]

You “monopolist” goons crack me up.
Microsoft OSs run on X% of the PC platforms worldwide.
Microsoft does not make the hardware, only the software and you CAN choose not to run it.
I do not have the numbers, but I’ll bet that a greater percent of Apple machines run an Apple OS. To boot, Apple makes the hardware.
It is nothing short of delusional for you adolescents to complain of monopoly on MS’s part.

I run Linux on a PC platform.