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"make available" to software developers the communications protocols that Windows client operating systems use to … interoperate "natively" (that is, without adding software) with Microsoft server operating systems in corporate networks or over … ambitious software development projects aimed at testing the adequacy of the documentation. Despite these efforts, as of March …
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The European Commission (EC) and the European Courts have being reaffirming in the Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica cases that guide-prices established by sector regulators upon electronic communications incumbents cannot per se exclude that conducts with anticompetitive foreclosure effects,...
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The Microsoft cases in the United States and in Europe have been influential in determining the contours of the substantive liability standards for dominant firms in US antitrust law and in EC Competition law. The competition law remedies that were adopted, following the finding of liability,...
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case, like the definition of the relevant market, the detection of the market power and of its abuse. In the software …
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case, like the definition of the relevant market, the detection of the market power and of its abuse. In the software …
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's extraordinary dictum to the effect that the computer software industry is somehow different for antitrust purposes and finds it … monopolists of dominant software platforms to gobble up add-ons, too. The piece concludes with a suggestion for litigation …
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with Samba, an open-source development project that produces server software that emulates the behavior of Microsoft …
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This article looks at the definition, conditions and evidence necessary to establish that a price squeeze is an exclusionary abuse, and thus an infringement of EC competition law. It shows that the necessary conditions are demanding, and that the empirical test for a price squeeze must be...
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Digital platforms operate in multisided markets providing services through the internet to two or more distinct groups of users, between which there are indirect network effects. Direct network effects are frequently present within each group. Therefore, online platforms usually present both...
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As the final judgment in the celebrated Microsoft case ends, this piece very briefly assesses the impact of its remedy. When evaluated in terms of its most important goals, the remedy has proven to be a failure. Microsoft's monopoly power in the PC operating systems market is now as great as it...
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