[Am-info] Legal monopoly?

[Joe Barr]

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Yes, it is the case.  USCD Pascal and CPM (or whatever the second
offering was) were never - not even in the first few months of the first
year when they were included - serious contenders or seriously pushed by
IBM.



On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 19:04, John Poltorak wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:14:52PM -0500, Joe Barr wrote:
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> > Microsoft was given the "Windows" monopoly when IBM went to it to
> > provide the operating system for its new PC back in 81. =20
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> That isn't the case.
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> You had to buy your own copy of DOS in the early days, and you did
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> the choice of DR-DOS among others at one point.
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> DR-DOS was a serious rival to MS-DOS in the late 80's.

Microsoft used their monopoly power to make sure it never became a
serious contender.  A better product?  Hell yes, just like every other
wannabe from OS/2 to present day Linux.

The existence of Dr DOS does not change the fact of Microsoft's
monopoly.





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> > It became the
> > Windows monopoly when MS stopped the sales of DOS and forced users
to go
> > to Windows.
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> > So there were never illegal means used to gain the monopoly. =20
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> What about the 'per processor' licence agreement?

MAINTAINING THE MONOPOLY.


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> DESQview provided an alternative to Windows for a while and only lost=20
> ground when people found they had already paid for Windows and didn't
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> they wanted to buy a second DOS handler.=20

Don't forget GeoWorks. But neither of them contradict the fact of
Microsoft's then existing monopoly.


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> > Lots of
> > lots of illegal means to maintain it, though.
> >=20
> > See ya,
> > Joe Barr
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