[Am-info] Legal monopoly?

[Joe Barr]

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On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 03:30, John Poltorak wrote:
> I remember buying a number of machines which didn't come with Microsoft=20
> software and I had a choice of different OSs, including DR-DOS, PC-DOS an=
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> OS/2. PC-DOS was quite popular at one time. The existance of these choice=
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> is evidence that there was no Microsoft monopoly in the OS market.
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PC-DOS was a flavor of MS-DOS offered by an agreement/licensing between
the hardware vendor (IBM) and Microsoft.  Microsoft probably got paid a
little something for each copy of PC-DOS sold.

As far as OS/2 is concerned, Microsoft demonstrated their monopoly power
in killing it by forcing IBM to abandon their marketing for the product
in order to be granted a license to preload Win95.

In any case, the monopoly has been in place from the beginning.  It was
a gift from IBM.  It didn't spring out of the air full-formed with the
introduction of Windows. =20





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