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At the opening plenary of the N-TEN conference, I raised questions about the potentially damaging nature of Microsoft's donations of software to the nonprofit sector. Although I'm not a lawyer, I also suggested that, as a monopoly, their below market price distribution of software might very well be a form of illegal competition for a particular market. This got a rather noisy response from the audience and serious questions later from the good folks at Discountech, who plan on helping Microsoft scale up those donations. Well, the first signs of this being a major issue are now coming to light in Europe, where Microsoft's donations to schools and government may well be both anticompetitive and illegal.
Posted: 5/15/03; 12:37:43 PM # |
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