On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 07:15, Ben Scott<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:54 PM, John Gwinner<[email protected]> wrote: >> Personally, I always wondered why Ford can sell cars with 'dealer >> installed' tires (known to be fatally defective at one time), but >> selling a PC with a browser bundled is somehow different. > > Because Ford does not have a monopoly on the automotive market. > > Microsoft got (and gets) in trouble for using its monopoly powers in > ways which violate anti-trust laws. Not simply for shipping their > browser with their OS, and not simply for being a monopoly, but using > their monopoly to promote their browser. > > -- Ben
Beg to differ. They get in trouble because they are successful, and therefore the antitrust laws are applied to them. Antitrust laws are a crock of smelly stuff. I'm no fan of MSFT, but the antitrust laws that it, and Intel, and others, have been slammed with are unjust and unAmerican. I expect this, unfortunately, of the EU, but hope some day that the Americans will wake up and learn that freedom is their friend, not the government. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
