I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'

From: allisonp <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sat May 6 22:27:01 2000

>That is backwards. The law, and common sense, requires
>that you already have to have significant market share
>to have monopoly power. Monopoly power is the ability
>to control prices and exclude competition by virtue of
>monopoly power. To me, the question is, how did MS
>achieve that power in the first place. There is no
>doubt that once they had the power they abused it --


It started with the licensing of DOS at the vendor level to the
extent that if the hardware could run dos it had to be licensed.
Some of us may remember the early machines the the
"jumper" to disable dos. the is was to inhibit the CP/M
follow ons, Netware and the unix varients.

This first lockin of the vendors was exploited for the windows
software that followed. It would also get the DOJ to issue
an aggreement back some years for MS to stop this
monopolistic activity.

Thats how the got the power. The money came from the
applications and MS was known for them and never cheap.

Allison
Received on Sat May 06 2000 - 22:27:01 BST