Leading software and hardware providers include Apple, Microsoft, etc. Similar to John D. Rockefeller and other Industrial Age “robber barons” Bill Gates’ the owner of software giant Microsoft was found guilty of monopolistic practices. Microsoft Corporation “was forced to change its business practices by unbundling its browser and media player from the Windows operating system” (291). That is very interesting, because as a Windows user, I am still a user of Windows media player and Internet Explorer. But since this finding, Bill Gates has been able to change is image from “robber baron” to global philanthropists. Copyright laws and patents have changed the way that people react to the web.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Robbing the Web
Leading software and hardware providers include Apple, Microsoft, etc. Similar to John D. Rockefeller and other Industrial Age “robber barons” Bill Gates’ the owner of software giant Microsoft was found guilty of monopolistic practices. Microsoft Corporation “was forced to change its business practices by unbundling its browser and media player from the Windows operating system” (291). That is very interesting, because as a Windows user, I am still a user of Windows media player and Internet Explorer. But since this finding, Bill Gates has been able to change is image from “robber baron” to global philanthropists. Copyright laws and patents have changed the way that people react to the web.
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