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Originally Posted by HarryT
Some things I don't agree with, however; I agree with you that Microsoft are being punished for their own success - but hasn't something similar happened in the US too?
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Yes, the US Dept of Justice went after them, too. But it wasn't just a matter of being successful... it was a matter of unscrupulously forcing retail vendors to adopt their products, whether they wanted to or not, by dictating one-sided licensing agreements that the vendors could not pass on without being pushed out of the market.
Those licensing agreements, in turn, forced retailers to remove other companies' software from a Windows-running PC, regardless of whether customers wanted it or not, stifling honest competition.
Microsoft was found guilty of deliberately restricting fair competition, but they essentially bought off the DoJ to avoid massive fines and other punishments. Most of us an America wish the EU well in kicking Microsoft's a$$.