Re:DOJ! Go Away and leave corporate america alone (Score 1)

I feel you're missing the point. In U.S. Supreme Court case 278 U.S. 245 it is made clear that "These facts bring the case within the terms of the statute, unless the words 'in any line of commerce' are to be given a narrower meaning than a literal reading of them conveys. The phrase is comprehensive and means that if the forbidden effect or tendency is produced in one out of all the various lines of commerce, the words 'in any line of commerce' literally are satisfied. The contention is that the words must be confined to the particular line of commerce in which the discriminator is engaged, and that they do not include a different line of commerce in which purchasers from the discriminator are engaged in competition with one another."

The "IBM monopoly case" was based on hardware distribution and the "Microsoft monopoly" is based on software distribution. The lines of commerce are similar but different. You can't apply the same criteria to both cases - each one has to be looked at with different goals in mind. No doubt that both companies have enjoyed great success in the public sector, but to say Microsoft is a monopoly because IBM is a monopoly is disingenuous and smacks of radical leftist thought.