Can abusive monopolies (excluding regulatory capture-based ones) actually ever exist in tech?
@rezendi But that's a good point. Hard to say if their decline was more the DOJ or their attempt to be abusive and market reaction to that.
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@paulbaumgart Heh. Wikipedia claims it was really the Vista debacle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars#Second_browser_war … Vista: an even bigger disaster than I knew. -
@paulbaumgart (cf their attempt to hijack Java -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B … -- which was only curtailed by litigation.) - 3 more replies
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@paulbaumgart Mind you, that was early 2000s. I think relatively few people would argue that MS did _not_ have an abusive monopoly ~98-04.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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