Antitrust law protects the public from companies that attain an undue domination of the marketplace via mergers, tying 1 product to another, vertical integration, and other practices tending to eliminate competition or bar entry into the market to newcomers. In the early 1980s, Microsoft was a much smaller company than it is today. However, it had already established a reputation of being a predator, a greedy predator. They were known to terminate licenses mercilessly once they …showed first 75 words of 2354 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2354 total…Times, 5/20/97, http://www.newyorktimes.org Markoff, John “Gates says His Company is not Violating Antitrust Agreement” New York Times, 10/22/97, http://www.newyorktimes.org Ramsted, Evan “Judge approves Microsoft antitrust settlement” The Detroit News, 8/22/95, http://detnews.com/menu/stories/14207.htm Work Cited Unknown Author “Microsoft: An Unprincipled, Rapacious Company” The Ethical Spectacle, April 1995, http://www.spectacle.org Unknown Author “The Justice Department v Microsoft: The Evidence and the Answers” New York Times, 10/27/97, http://www.newyorktimes.org