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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: FTC Finds Microsoft Monopolizing Software Industry
- Message-ID: <D2150035.lv6cma@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 00:45:10 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <1992Dec20.163715.28824@eng.umd.edu> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
- > 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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- This really is a serious concern of many people. There are indications that
- the government may be looking into doing this. And with the new Clinton
- crowd coming to town, the odds just shot way up.
-
- God save us from ourselves!
-
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