It’s the same question asked by tech executives of an earlier era whose companies had also been accused of illegal monopolization — Kodak, Xerox, IBM, AT&T, Intel and Microsoft. And the honest answer, one that regulators and politicians rarely say out loud, is that when companies are so successful that they achieve dominance in their markets, then some of what they used to do — and what their rivals can still do — becomes illegal. At its core, antitrust law says that to save… Source link
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