To: Swordmaker
Neither of them have a monopoly on anything other than their own intellectual properties.
As an econ nerd, hearing a non-monopoly referred to as a monopoly is like claws on chalkboard.
6 posted on
03/31/2009 11:23:12 PM PDT by
LifeComesFirst
(Until the unborn are free, nobody is free)
To: LifeComesFirst
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Neither of them have a monopoly on anything other than their own intellectual properties. As an econ nerd, hearing a non-monopoly referred to as a monopoly is like claws on chalkboard. Agreed. I do think there was a time when Microsoft displayed some of the characteristics of a monopoly, but even those days are long over.
9 posted on
03/31/2009 11:53:35 PM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: LifeComesFirst
Neither of them have a monopoly on anything other than their own intellectual properties. The courts have ruled that Microsoft's ~90% plus of the Personal Computing Operating System market is a monopoly... and hence has restricted their freedom in certain ways that non-monopolists do not have to meet.
13 posted on
04/01/2009 12:03:54 AM PDT by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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