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

[Jacob Todd]

No it's not. Any sane economist will tell you they didn't have a monopoly,
alart from the patent and copyright monopoly, which was established by the
gov't.

/thread
On Dec 27, 2010 9:01 AM, "Robert Adkins II" <radkins at impelind.com> wrote:
> Seriously?
>
> After all this time and the legal findings that showed, not just in the
US,
> but in Europe, that Microsoft did indeed hold a monopoly on the market and
> did indeed abuse their monopoly powers, there are those who will post to a
> Linux Users Group list things like this?
>
> It's bizarre. Extremely bizarre. Honestly, I don't give a crap that MS had
a
> monopoly or that they abused it. Just denying that it existed is like
> denying the fact that the United States used Atomic Bombs on the Japanese
in
> WWII.
>
> -Rob
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 4:15 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Is the "Wintel" monopoly slipping away?
>>
>> Seeing that there was no monopoly to begin with, no.
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