Intel to include DRM in new Pentium 4 series processors

[John R T Brazier]

JB drivelled:
>> Your first statement is 100% correct. However, I must disagree with the
>> second.
>> M$ has 'market dominance', but not a monopoly (Chambers - Monopoly: sole
>> power, or
>> privilege, of dealing in anything; exclusive command or possession; ...).

Adrian correctly responded:
>I understand, recalling haveing read it recently in a tertiary source, that
>the EU for legal purposes defines a monopoly as having 25% of the relevant
>market.

>Shall we agree to call MS oligopolists, and note that their marketing
>strategy is tending toward trying to create an oligopsony to purchase their
>products and inflict them on eg the NHS, and that the oligopsonists are not
>noted for technical prowess or interest but are likely to be sympathetic to
>the idea of detailed control?

Completely agree with your points, and the name 'oligopolist' is a good one:
that is what M$ are. The only point I was making is that 'the computer
market'
is still very turbulent: within our lifetimes I can envisage M$ being dead,
whilst new young turks take over. Remember DEC? Or Wang? I also suspect that
M$'s arrogance will come back to haunt them.

They are not, however, a 'monopoly'. The fact that the EU has a poor grasp
of
English doesn't change this!

TTFN

John B