http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080104/apple-wma-suit/ by John Paczkowski Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080104/apple-wma-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-88590 Ideologie a corrente alternata - FOLBlog Fri, 27 May 2011 10:29:02 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080104/apple-wma-suit/#comment-88590 [...] volte ho affermato che trovo molto strano l’atteggiamento permissivista che le stesse autorità antitrust che sanzionano pesantemente (e giustamente) Microsoft ad ogni [...] [...] volte ho affermato che trovo molto strano l’atteggiamento permissivista che le stesse autorità antitrust che sanzionano pesantemente (e giustamente) Microsoft ad ogni [...]

]]> http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080104/apple-wma-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-1013 Fred Ochsenhirt Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:41:00 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080104/apple-wma-suit/#comment-1013 Actually, there is logic in the claim, if not the remedy. Microsoft is only a "convicted monopolist" because the judge defined the relevant market so narrowly (is it really surprising that they have an OS monopoly if you define the market so as to exclude both the MacOS and Linux?). Apply that same sort of logic to the digital audio player market, and this sort of suit makes a lot of sense. The remedy, of course, is stupid. But so were many of the remedies proposed in the MS case. Actually, there is logic in the claim, if not the remedy. Microsoft is only a “convicted monopolist” because the judge defined the relevant market so narrowly (is it really surprising that they have an OS monopoly if you define the market so as to exclude both the MacOS and Linux?). Apply that same sort of logic to the digital audio player market, and this sort of suit makes a lot of sense. The remedy, of course, is stupid. But so were many of the remedies proposed in the MS case.

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