[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<7d184e4c-057c-445a-8444-18c4d4355098 at b1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, John
Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes: 

> The MS case was about abuse of monopoly, a single player with
> significant market power in a specific market, which presumably isn't
> the case for VMS in the general IT market.

Yes, this argument is often used.  However, by saying that MS has a 
monopoly so we have to do a little something about it, one actually 
cements this monopoly in the minds of many people: if one can use 
another browser, then the monopoly will be tolerated etc.