Das System Bill Gates
Stefan Krempl
Fundamente der Marktmacht Microsofts und ihre
Interpretation im aktuellen Gerichtsverfahren
Das Justizministerium stützt sich in seiner Anklageerhebung auf
Sektion 2 des Sherman Act, die dominierendes Marktverhalten von
Unternehmen anspricht. Es muß deshalb nicht nur nachweisen, daß
es sich bei Microsoft um ein Monopol handelt, sondern auch, daß
die an den Tag gelegten Business-Strategien schädlich für den
Markt und vor allem den Verbraucher sind. "Section 2 cases are hard to win, period," says [Joe] SiMicrosoft,
echoing other antitrust laywers. "The burden of proof in a Section
2 case requires not only that you prove the person is a monopolist,
or is dangerously close to being one, but also that [the] company
doesn't have a legitimate business justification for what it's
doing." .. "The government will be asking the judge to take away
the short-run consumer benefits so we have the opportunity of
getting to the long-run".. "It's always hard," [Sam] Miller says,
"to prove a company has crossed the line from hard-core competition,
which is perfectly legal, into anti-competitive activity. The government also will have to show such conduct actually hurt
consumers by stifling meaningful competition and innovation..
Antitrust law, which is based mainly on ever-changing court decisions,
is murky enough that lawyers disagree over exactly how much harm
must be proved. Or for that matter, whether the damage to consumers
must have already occured.
Schwierigkeiten und Ansatzpunkte eines Kartellrechtsverfahrens
Gary Rivlin: Dance, Microsoft. In: Upside vom 18.8.98
Business Week vom 16.11.98
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