openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | reply to ossito16
Re: When does it stop? said by ossito16:I believe the antitrust falls into the realm of bandwidth ownership. They have the copper lines, U-verse fiber, and 700mhz spectrum, Did I miss the announcement about the 700 MHz spectrum? Other companies have the things that you mentioned so I'm not seeing that issue.said by ossito16:Look at Micro$oft, of course they were not the only operating system around, but when they started to provide media players, browsers, word processors, etc. they got tossed into the antitrust pit. There were other reasons why Microsoft was sued, such as forcing OEMs to play along with certain tactics. The tying of media player, and IE to the OS was a BS part of the allegation IMO. Every other OS that I've touched does similar things. So, back to your original antitrust statement, unless AT&T starts to force OEMs into non-favoring situations or they start to use their market strength in an anticompetitive manner, I don't see the antitrust issues. |
