The following is from Memory.
I believe at this point representative
Judicial Systems that represent approx 23 Countries in the world have examined
Microsoft's behavior in the context of their own anti-competition
Laws.
They have all - 100% - found that under their particular Laws and
Legal Definitions, Microsoft does indeed constitute a Monopoly in the market
they oversee.
Yup, you read that right: every Judicial system in the
world that has looked at whether MS held a monopoly in the marketplace at the
time the question was examined answered 100% Yes!
In none of those
Countries is having a Monopoly illegal. It's only to the extent you take your
business practices while you are a Monopoly that decides whether or not
anti-competition Laws are infringed.
I believe in all of those
examinations, it was found that Microsoft was in breach of anti-competition
Laws. In only one of those instances (North Korea I think, it was either North
or South) was it found that the breach did NOT lead to market harm.
With
that in mind, who am I going to trust over whether or not the Law has been
appropriately applied:
The Judicial Systems representing 23
Countries?
or
A Microsoftie claiming the Courts were being
mean?
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