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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: FTC Finds Microsoft Monopolizing Software Industry
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.163715.28824@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 16:37:15 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
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- In article <1h08p9INNb9t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke) writes:
- >
- >Well ladies and gentlemen, it seems Billy Gates and his Gestapo at
- >Microsoft are going the way AT&T did in the early 1980s- a breakup.
- >Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission found Microsoft to be monopolizing
- >the computer software industry and to be practicing unfair business
- >practices. The FTC wants to know how Microsoft garnered 95% of the overall
- >operating system and major software markets before it cotinues further
- >actions which will entail one of or more than one thing:
- >
- >1) Breaking up of Microsoft into smaller subdivisions
- >2) Enacting "Barriers" around the company as to what its pricing, sales,
- > business practices may be.
- >
-
- Ohhh, brother. If there's anything worse than Microsoft monopolizing
- the software industry, it's the government regulating it. How long
- before computer programming is no longer an unlicensed profession?
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