Re: [NTLK] [OT] It's MS-DOS 6.22 day!

From: John Chu <johnchu_at_acm.org>
Date: Mon Jun 22 2009 - 11:09:46 EDT

> And why "monopoly"? Nowadays when Apple bundles so many full-fledged apps
> with their OS, nobody goes around screaming "Monopoly, monopoly!", but
> when Microsoft did this for the first time with IE, it was controversial.

Your parallelism only makes sense if Apple had the same market share as
Microsoft. They didn't charge Microsoft with having a monopoly. They
charged Microsoft with using their monopoly to achieve another one.

> Not to
> start a flame war,

IOW: To start a flame war...

john

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