[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/27/2018 1:55 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <q00abf$1lb$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> At some location at some time it was a legal requirement to give users
>> the choice of browser.
> 
> I never understood that.  If you don't like the lack of choice, don't
> buy it.

The problem from legal perspective is when a vendor has a
dominating position in market X and use that to achieve
a dominating position in market Y.

The premise was that people (for whatever reason) wanted
Windows as desktop OS but that the only reason why they
wanted IE as browser was that it came with Windows.

> That would be like buying a Peugeot and demanding that they support
> replacing the transmission with some third-party product.

I don't think the analogy is similar at all.

Peugeot does not have a dominating position in
the car market. And I don't think Peugeot are really
trying to dominate the transmission market at all.

Arne