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- From: lamont@rtsg.mot.com (Bradley Lamont)
- Subject: Re: FTC Finds Microsoft Monopolizing Software Industry
- Message-ID: <lamont.724946093@catfish16>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1h08p9INNb9t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:54:53 GMT
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- In <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.
- >
- >
- >I know *I'm* Happy! :-)
- >--
- >Travis Grundke | For More information about MacGames Digest,
-
- Source for this tidbit of info?
-
- (Not that I don't consider you reliable, but might want to cut it out of the
- paper :-)
-
- Brad
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