<story><title>Open Web Advocacy</title><url>https://open-web-advocacy.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>______-_-______</author><text>A few years ago, including a browser with your OS was an antitrust violation. What happened?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redwall_hp</author><text>What was actually an antitrust issue: leveraging a 98% market share as a cudgel to move into a new market by&lt;p&gt;1. Including a free competitor in a hot new market&lt;p&gt;2. Threatening hardware OEMs with financial penalties (not getting OEM copies of Windows) if they continued the practice of bundling the primary player&amp;#x27;s product (Netscape)&lt;p&gt;Back then, Web browsers were something you went to a brick and mortar store and paid good money for a disk to get. They weren&amp;#x27;t just handed out for free online. Microsoft flattened the competition in a market they were not previously in by leveraging their dominance in another market.</text></comment>
<story><title>Open Web Advocacy</title><url>https://open-web-advocacy.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>______-_-______</author><text>A few years ago, including a browser with your OS was an antitrust violation. What happened?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aluminum96</author><text>Microsoft at the time had a virtual OS monopoly (around 90% market share if I recall), and the court found that they were unlawfully leveraging an existing monopoly for advantage in a different market (web browsers). With less than 50% share, Apple does not have an OS monopoly, so the same logic does not apply.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I&amp;#x27;m all in favor of enacting laws to protect freedom on the web platform. But the Microsoft fact pattern just doesn&amp;#x27;t apply.</text></comment>