[Sussex] I don't see how what M$ are doing can be legal

[Tony Austin]

> It is a contract term and as such is up to the companies involved - you
> are right to suggest that the power of Microsoft as a supplier in a
> market is unduly large as a result of their monopoly but this practise
> itself is not inherently illegal.  It would be necessary to to take some
> form of antitrust action against Microsoft to reverse this.
>

It might be legal under contract law but does the UK have no laws on
restrictive practices?

> Rest assured that the EU looks very likely to come down like a ton of
> camel vomit on Microsoft in the forthcoming case, and this kind of
> anti-competitive activity is likely to be completely outlawed (in the
> case of Microsoft) in the EU.  Furthermore, this is really only the tip
> of the ice-berg - the EU is even more concerned about the leveraging of
> the platform to push other companies out of markets that are new to
> Microsoft - bundling is still the biggest issue.
>

Where can we read about the EU case against M$?

Should we be writing to our MPs or MEPs?

> --
> Geoff Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
> Free Software Foundation
>

Regards.

Tony Austin
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