kaled - 4:35 pm on Dec 16, 2009 (gmt 0)

You might have an interesting point if you had made a comparison with tyres, since there are no companies that make steering wheels (but not cars).

Opera (who raised the original complaint) took the view that they were disadvantaged because Microsoft bundled a browser with Windows. Presumably, MS recovered the development cost by increasing the price of Windows. Since MS did not offer a reduced cost version (without Internet Explorer) Opera argued that it was disadvantaged i.e. MS was exploiting is position unfairly.

You may disagree with the ruling, but if you developed a spiffy app for Windows I imagine you'd be pretty peeved if Microsoft then decided to bundle a free program with Windows that does much the same thing.

Kaled.

[edited by: bill at 4:07 am (utc) on Dec. 17, 2009]
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