Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Mar 2006 18:10 UTC, submitted by helgegrimm
Windows The European Commission said on Wednesday it told Microsoft that it had competition worries about the firm's new operating system, Vista, another antitrust concern that the software giant must answer in Europe. "We are concerned about the possibility that the next Vista operating system will include various elements which are currently available separately from Microsoft or other companies," Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said. More here. My take: Enough already. Seriously.
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Moulinneuf
Member since:
2005-07-06

What do you not get with : Cant make a monopoly with GNU/Linux. To make a monopoly you have to be the only provider or the only one allowed to provide it or the only one allowed to legally work on it or modify it.
There is no legal way for Red Hat to stop anyone from working on it , modifying it and even make copy of it all of this legally or replace it with there own version. Thats the point of GNU/Linux.

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BluenoseJake Member since:
2005-08-11

If 90% of the PC's in the world ran Linux, then Linux would have a monopoly, maybe not one distro, but still a monopoly, as when it comes down to it, there is still only one man in charge of the kernel...

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dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

Actually not, because it's perfectly legal to fork it.

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Domin Member since:
2005-07-10

Technology monocultre is not the same thing as monopoly.
Back in the day there was Unix technology monoculture in some market segments, but none of the supporting companies held real monopoly.

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