__/ [ chrisv ] on Thursday 14 December 2006 16:50 \__
> amicus_curious wrote:
>
>>"chrisv" <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:1vk2o2hsjf9ks97bivanbb2e5cpvto3iu7@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> amicus_curious wrote:
>>>
>>>>I would not choose to believe that Microsoft is subsidizing the lower
>>>>Windows price or is coercing Dell into artificially building in some
>>>>Windows
>>>>advantage. Dell is a very large company in their own right and a public
>>>>company as well whose records are open to scrutiny by many auditors
>>>>including the SEC, the IRS, and even the Antitrust Division of the DOJ.
>>>>They are not going to expose their company based on the whimsy of
>>>>another.
>>>
>>> They don't have much choice to "expose" themselves, considering that
>>> Micro$oft's market power mandates that Dell buy the Micro$oft's
>>> products.
>>>
>>Ah, that is true insofar as the OEMs are submitting to consumer pressure to
>>offer Windows. That is not true for any purposeful act of artificially
>>increasing the competitor's price differential.
>
> Repeat after me: "Microsoft incentives"
Jury Hears Microsoft Competition Suit
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| A judge on Friday told jurors they must accept as fact that a
| federal court found in 1999 that Microsoft holds a monopoly over
| computer operating systems and that it restricted computer
| manufacturers' ability to use competing systems.
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| [...]
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| She said she'll show that the company used its monopoly power
| to exclude competition and control prices and that it conspired with
| other companies to restrain trade, maintaining what she called a
| chokehold on software competitors and computer manufacturers.
|
| "It isn't illegal to be successful," Conlin said in opening
| remarks. "We applaud that. ... But you can't freeze out competitors
| and punish and retaliate against people who cooperate with
| competitors. Microsoft did all that and more."
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061201/microsoft_trial.html?.v=1
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