[GDC7]

How can you be anti competitive when your software is free?

[MBCook]

It’s called “dumping”.

Give away your product for free. Now it’s practically impossible for your competitors to sell enough to keep going when there’s a free product out there.

That’s EXACTLY what killed Netscape.

[macintux]

That’s practically the definition of being anti-competitive. Leveraging a monopoly to fund other products to destroy the companies that make them.

[GDC7]

Anti trust laws were made to protect consumers, not paper-millionaires shareholders of other compenies.

There wasn't an organic hatred against Microsoft, people were teaching courses on how to create a startup aimed at getting acquired by them and retire early.

It was a DC play from people who knew nothing about software but were jelous of what they were reading on Fortune and Forbes.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

By choking out your competitors, since the true cost isn't free. For instance, demanding that OEMs only ship Windows, thus cornering the market, while still charging them (what, you really thought MS was giving their OS away for free, just because the OEM didn't show you the line item?).

[AnimalMuppet]

Microsoft's software wasn't free - except when they were trying to drive someone else out of a market. Even then it often wasn't free.

[fundad]

We all know that they charged the pc manufacturers and forced them to pay a license on computers regardless of what’s preinstalled