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- From: Leonard Hermens <lhermens@eecs.wsu.edu>
- Subject: Re: FTC Finds Microsoft Monopolizing Software Industry
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- In article <lamont.724946093@catfish16> Bradley Lamont,
- lamont@rtsg.mot.com 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.
-
- > Source for this tidbit of info?
- >
- > (Not that I don't consider you reliable, but might want to cut it out
- of the
- > paper :-)
-
- Associated Press. I saw it in the Business section of the Spokane,
- Washington,
- "Spokesman-Review" -- Saturday's edition.
-
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- Leonard Hermens
- Washington State University
- lhermens@eecs.wsu.edu
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