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		kprobst on March 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In Eu... Not that they were a monopoly, that's not illegal per se. The charges brought against them were related to the abuse of said monopoly.

barrkel on March 3, 2012 [–]

I never said that being a monopoly was illegal. But they were found to be a monopoly. That's a necessary condition for finding someone guilty of abuse of a monopoly position.

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