Tracy R Reed wrote:
You have to act to maintain your monopoly (which is a dirty trick in
itself) to be guilty of antitrust violations, no?
It's not a dirty trick if the monopoly is mandated by the government.
What "dirty trick" is your water/sewer company pulling that requires you
to buy water from only one place.
"For many years, AT&T had been permitted to retain its monopoly status
under the assumption that it was a natural monopoly. The first erosion
to this monopoly occurred in 1956 where the Hush-a-Phone v. FCC ruling
allowed a third-party device to be attached to rented telephones owned
by AT&T." - Wikipedia
So from 1956 to 1982 they were involved in dirty tricks. Hardly angels.
Errr, no. AT&T was *required* to *restrict* people from attaching things
to the network *by law*. This ruling just said "AT&T isn't required to
restrict people from attaching things to the *outside* of their phone."
Note the plaintiffs in the case: CPE manufacturer vs the FCC. Note the
lack of AT&T as primary defendant.
It's an ECMA standard, and there's already an open-source version.
Oh my...don't EVEN get us started on Microsoft and standards processes!
The point being that you *can* build a standards-compliant version of C#
without using MS's source code.
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