Muni-broadband is To Linux as AT&T Is To Microsoft?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 16, 2007 11:44 AM EDT
Wired.com; By Larry Lessig
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A decade ago, The Department of Justice filed its landmark antitrust case against Microsoft. Four years later, a unanimous US Court of Appeals ruled that the company had used its power illegally to protect its monopoly Windows operating system. That behavior, the government had charged, chilled competitive innovation. A reluctant DOJ concluded that the only solution was a lawsuit. How else, Microsoft's competitors asked, could the software giant be restrained? If not by the US government, then by whom?

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