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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.

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

And consumers were harmed by one company controlling 97% of the desktop market, when its would-have-been competitors had better product but couldn't compete because it cheated.

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> And consumers were harmed by one company controlling 97% of the desktop market

When the 97% is potentially all free, then I don't where's the monopoly, unless you also include in the definition of monopoly having a special place in people's hearts after you gave them such gift.

People made a choice to pay for convenience, but if you looked around you'd find ways to get Microsoft products for free.