Subject: Re: Microsoft's Ambitions and Antitrust Policy
Marty Tennant (marty@sccoast.net)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:23:59 -0400
Message-Id: <004701bd6c67$f6947e40$5cbd74cc@586> From: "Marty Tennant" <marty@sccoast.net> To: <roundtable@cni.org> Subject: Re: Microsoft's Ambitions and Antitrust Policy Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:23:59 -0400
Jamie Love <love@cptech.org> / Ralph Nader said:
>
> In high tech markets, it is often the case that products must
> interoperate with each other. AT&T tried to limit the ability of
> competitors products to interoperate with the AT&T telephone network, by
> withholding technical information, using proprietary technologies, or by
> changing standards to create incompatibilities of rivals products. IBM
> did this. Intel is doing this now. Microsoft has done this for a long
> time.
>
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Jamie, this is happening still in the telephone network with the
Advanced Intelligent Network. AIN was touted by the FCC as the
telephony equivalent of an open IBM PC programming platform. It is
still a monopoly bottleneck, and the FCC isn't doing anything to close
out the old 91-346 Intelligent Network docket.
Wish someone with some clout would scrutinize this area of technology
that is the bridge between the public switched telecom network and the
Internet. This area of the logical network is far more important as a
vehicle of competition than the current physical network.
Marty Tennant
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