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>...then isn't their ELUA's trying to create an unlawful monopoly by saying VFP is only allowed to run on windows?
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>As threshold matter Victor, before you can claim something is a monopoly, you first have to define the market. Then, you have to determine if there is market power. Even after you get that far - assuming you can, it is still not per se illegal. The only thing that is really per se illegal is price fixing. The current school of thought in the law/economics world - which drives anti-trust law - is the Chicago School - which is heavy into econometics and reliance on the market - and dispenses with many of the per se illegalities that existed in the early days of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Isn't there a difference between claming a monopoly exists, and someone trying to unlawfully create one? In this example, that's what's happening. And even so, MS has already been nailed for doing this same thing - bundling software with the OS and/or forcing you to use their OS. It appears there are already rulings against MS to prevent this exact type of stuff from happening... I don't see how they can provide an argument to something they've already lost.