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- From: petere@tesla.mitre.org (Peter D. Engels)
- Subject: Re: FTC Finds Microsoft Monopolizing Software Industry
- Message-ID: <petere-231292125242@129.83.90.13>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:54:06 GMT
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- In article <1h08p9INNb9t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- (Travis Grundke) wrote:
- >
- >
- > 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 believe this is not quite correct. According to my reading of the
- article, the FTC is *considering* investigating Microsoft for unfair trade
- practices. The rest is speculation. My source was the Business section of
- the NY Times, on Sat. or Sun.
-
- -Pete
-