Has the lack of competition in the operating systems market harmed innovation in terms of the development of Window's operating system? In other words, is XP all it should be?
Title: Has the lack of competition in the operating systems market harmed innovation in terms of the development of Window's operating system? In other words, is XP all it should be?
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Has the lack of competition in the operating systems market harmed innovation in terms of the development of Window's operating system? In other words, is XP all it should be?
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 1381 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The basic issue posed in the above question is Microsoft's monopolistic practices with software run solely in their computer operating systems (OS). Can we afford to allow America's largest corporation to get away with monopolistic practices that will affect the entire computer software industry? To allow this, would create a legal precedent so strong that it will be impossible to stop or control any other monopolistic practices in all other business and markets.
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…showed last 75 words of 1381 total…create a legal precedent that will affect many other products in a very competitive market which result in direct detriment to the consumer.
1 Mark Cooper, 1999, p. 1, para 5, Item 3
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/courses/comm334/Docs/monopolypower.pdf
2 The 'Lectric Law Library's, Legal Lexicon's Lyceum, 2002
http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/m138.htm
3 U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings, 2000
4 Copyright Dow Jones & Company Inc Dec 27, 2001
5 Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal, 2001
6 Unknown