From: jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (J-P)
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Subject: Re: Djgpp dead.
Date: 30 Jul 2000 21:29:51 +0100
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In article <002301bffa62$60477ce0$0500007b AT brk>,
Johan Henriksson <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>Apparently Mi¢ro$oft force them to do this. I think this is actually
>>against monopoly legislation in the UK.... but I am not a lawyer.
>
>I don't think so. There's no law against specializing in a specific field

There is a law against abusing your status to unfairly cut out the
competition. Witness Wall's, offering cheap rental of freezers to small
shops, so long as they only stock Wall's ice cream. This is currently
being investigated, I think.

J-P