MS browser won fair says fuddie
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Erik Funkenbusch
WRONG.
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The micoshaft browser has been paid for by payees that have bought the os. Its anti-trust violation to argue that therefore the browser should be given away free gratis. It costs the company which is a dominant monopoly lots of money to give it away free gratis by illegally subsidising it. EU laws and many countries have clear laws prohibiting such practices.
I mean RAM manufacturers could for example supply chips at the same price as they charge at home as in foreign markets. Yet they are the subject of anti-trust hearings and mega fines amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars because logically it should cost more to sell in foreign country because of shipping costs. Legislators are not interested in market distortions.
How micoshaft has gotten away with subsiding the bundling costs of internet exploder by charging for its development and maintenance through the separate act of selling operating systems and office products one only can leave to the imagination. Its sheer stupidity on behalf of regulators, or they have so effectively bribed them that they don't even function as a legal enbreasty any more.