Can abusive monopolies (excluding regulatory capture-based ones) actually ever exist in tech?
@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).
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@paulbaumgart (also, I don't think it's entirely coincidence that Firefox only won after the USG very nearly broke up Microsoft by law.) -
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@rezendi Or were there bigger abuses that I'm glossing over? -
@paulbaumgart I meant the OS, but just because a monopoly is not eternal doesn't mean it's not a monopoly.
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