● 11.16.06

●● A Question for the armchair lawyers

Posted in Antitrust, Microsoft, Novell at 2:42 pm by Shane Coyle

IANAL, AFAIK, so I pose this query to the community (and passers by): With MS moving aggressively to make deals with all Linux vendors to recoup royalties on the distribution of Open Source Software (its main competition), is there any type of antitrust concern?

If MS is allowing these puppet competitors to exist just to allay antitrust concerns, while actually earning revenue from their supposed ‘competition’, how is this not monopolistic?

My high school civics makes me recall something about horizontal monopolies, is this the beginning of one?

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Such a monopoly is known as a horizontal monopoly. A magazine publishing firm, for example, might publish many different magazines on many different subjects, but it would still be considered to engage in monopolistic practices if the intent of doing this was to control the entire magazine-reader market, and prevent the emergence of competitors. (Wikipedia)

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