If the marketplace really were free, you would have a point. If you had been paying casual attention to the MS anti-trust trials, you would know that the marketplace is in no way free, but illegally controlled by Microsoft.
This is only if you accept the charges against Microsoft.
The idea that Microsoft might unfairly exploit the advantages it has in the marketplace..which it has in fact earned through it's own success seems to me to borderline on fair game in the arena of free market competition.
I disagree with your claim that "the marketplace is in no way free, but illegally controlled by Microsoft"...
Microsoft has not held a gun to anyone's head and forced them to buy their products....I and everybody else who has made Microsoft #1 have bought their products out of our own free choice.
This is only if you accept the charges against Microsoft.
These charges were accepted by the generally pro-Microsoft D.C. Appeals Court.
The idea that Microsoft might unfairly exploit the advantages it has in the marketplace..which it has in fact earned through it's own success seems to me to borderline on fair game in the arena of free market competition. I disagree with your claim that "the marketplace is in no way free, but illegally controlled by Microsoft"... Microsoft has not held a gun to anyone's head and forced them to buy their products....
Microsoft has effectively held guns to the heads of P.C. manufacturers. They say: either you pre-install Windows, Internet Explorer, Media Player, etc. on 100% of your PCs (thereby denying non-technically-minded customers the opportunity to choose whether or not they want to pay for this software), or you can't install it on any of your P.C.s. Given Microsoft's illegally-obtained market dominance, the P.C. manufacturers have no choice but to agree to Microsoft's terms.