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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Steve Porter who wrote (108300)4/28/2000 4:30:00 PM
From: that_crazy_doug  Read Replies (3) of 1570917
 
<< Isn't your country based on the very idea of the free market economy. How can your government possibly feel it has the right to dictate to a company (Microsoft) how it does it's business. >>

Well the government has the right because enough people got upset about how monopolies used to run. Whether you agree that the government should stop companies from screwing their customers is another issue.

I'm not the most well studied on monopolistic rules, however I believe it is considered a violation of monopolistic power to use your dominance in one market to dominate another market. Microsoft has definitely done this on countless occasions.
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