Can abusive monopolies (excluding regulatory capture-based ones) actually ever exist in tech?
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Replying to @paulbaumgart
@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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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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.)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@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.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@paulbaumgart (cf their attempt to hijack Java -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B … -- which was only curtailed by litigation.)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@rezendi "the rebates it offered to OEMs preventing other operating systems from getting a foothold in the market" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp ….1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@paulbaumgart "embrace, extend, extinguish" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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