I would like to give my two cents worth as an economist. MS was forced to unbundle because they were already anti-competitive. The act of bundling is generally good for consumers. It is not illegal per se. However, if done by a market leader with tremendous market share and specifically to remove competition by killing them off, gov't has a duty to step in and stop those who would abuse their market leadership status. That is what happened to Netscape. And in the absence of competition, IE stagnated, only to be revived when FireFox came out. Competition is good. Choice is good. That's why we choose Linux.
Should Google or Apple start killing off their competition, the government would step in once more. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Andy Sy <[email protected]> wrote: > Harish Pillay wrote: > > Actually when I hear him talk, I'm convinced his > sincere in his philantrophy. I just think he > was OVER-competitive before when he was donning > the businessman hat. But also, if one goes back > to some of the things that MS was being accused of > before such as bundling - you could see that at > least _some_ of the arguments were bogus - do you > hear anyone complaining about Apple bundling Safari > in OS X as hurting consumers? > > The EU is forcing MS to release Windows without the > media features, why aren't they forcing Apple to do the > same thing to OS X (e.g. iTunes)? > > If there's anything the MS of today is guilty of, > it's *crappy* marketing. Google and Apple get away > with the same things and get applauded even... > heck Google's potential to invade privacy is > far MORE sinister than anything MS is even > capable of, but very few people talk about that. > Google pushes autoupdates left and right to its Google > toolbar and other stuff, but you don't hear much whining > about it unlike what you heard before with Windows. > > -- Regards, Danny Ching
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