@paulbaumgart Microsoft in the 1990s leaps to mind as an example. If you control a de facto standard, that's something close to a monopoly.
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@rezendi But then they tried to "abuse" it in the browser wars and were beaten by an open source project a few years later (Firefox). - 8 more replies
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@paulbaumgart Isn’t Microsoft the obvious example? - 1 more reply
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@paulbaumgart Do abusive monopolies exist *outside* of tech, without a form of regulatory capture? -
@fnxTX I suspect the unpalatable-switching-cost window is much narrower in tech. But perhaps e-commerce makes it moot all around. - 3 more replies
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@paulbaumgart What is Oracle if not an abusive monopoly? -
@bcantrill What market are they abusing? It seems to me like SAP keeps them in check in a lot of areas, but you have first-hand experience.
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