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Story: Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'

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No Jon, the game needs to be played by certain rules and those that want to play by their own rules should be excluded from the game. It's as simple as that.

In case you haven't noticed it. The price for software is abnormally high for many, many years now. That's because the games are fixed and only a select few are in on the deal. The rest are left the crumbles to make it appear that everything is need and dandy.

Therefor it's strange to determine the winner by looking at who makes the most profit. When the games are fixed it's pretty obvious who will make the most profit, isn't it?

But perhaps you're the kind of guy that finds no fault in a company that does whatever to come out on top just as long as they make the most profit. Well, if that's your attitude then surely you wouldn't mind someone else strong arming that company because hey, strong arming is allowed, isn't it?

So it boils down to two thing. Either you don't mind the strong arming and the fixing of games in which case you can't object if someone else uses the same tactics. Or you want everyone to play by the same rules in which case you can't object if everyone is forced to play by the same rules.

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