A kinder, gentler gorilla?
Despite appearing to have changed its behavior for the better, Microsoft remains a heavy-handed monopolist. In 2000, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared that the software company was an “abusive monopolist” and ordered it to be split in two. However, the threat of a break-up seems to have reced...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 359; pp. 63 - 65 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
April 28 2001
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