[mdlug] Is the "Wintel" monopoly slipping away?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Garry Stahl wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> When you have to jump through such hoops to NOT buy something
>> then yes, the product which you do NOT WANT TO BUY is a monopoly.
>>
>> Any reasonable person can see that.
>>   
> 
> Actually the US courts said so.  Dubya forced the justice department to
> drop the court ordered judgment against Microsoft.  I have not forgotten
> this.
> 
> Windows meets all the requirements for a monopoly in the legal sense. 
> 
> The hoops I had to jump through to get a non-windows laptop were pretty
> amazing.  However I did.  I should not have to refuse a EULA and hope
> for a refund on a product I do not want and do not need.  That is non
> competitive as the courts decided. 
> 

In fact, tortuous interference of trade, if any competent
civil litigator would take up such a case.

Oh wait.  Digital Research already made that point and won the
case in the DR DOS suit.   (Despite MS dragging it out for 10
years)