Maintaining or Creating a Monopoly (from the FTC Site) "Because the antitrust laws encourage competition that leads to low prices, courts and antitrust authorities challenge predatory activities only when they will lead to higher prices." - SO HOW HAS MICROSOFT MADE PRICES HIGHER???

Articles, editorials and commentaries

• A Critique of Neoclassical and Austrian Monopoly Theory
  One of the most controversial areas in Austrian economics, and one where even long-established Austrian theorists differ sharply, is monopoly theory. - D.T. Armentano, April 26, 2005 [Mises]

• Capitalism and (Microsoft's) Freedom
  Rather than attack Microsoft, perhaps Mr. Starr should reorient his gaze to the antitrust laws themselves. - Nicholas Provenzo, March 2, 2004 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Persecution of Microsoft is Immoral
  Microsoft is only the latest in a long line of victims of the unjust antitrust laws. From ALCOA in the 1950s to IBM in the 1970s to Wal-Mart in the 1980s, the government's goal has always been the same: prosecute an exceptional firm that is growing rich not through theft or fraud, but through superior production and voluntary trade. - Richard Salsman, CFA, November 13, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Educating the Monopolists: Antitrust Prosecutor Klein Works to Reduce Competition in Education
  The New York Schools, unlike Microsoft, are a genuine monopoly that maintains its operations through coercion and force, not by offering a quality product that consumers want. - S.M. Oliva, February 27, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

• The Antitrust "Shakedown" Racket: Abolish the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
  The bulk of antitrust enforcement funding--more than $330 million--will come from the very businesses subject to antitrust persecution. - S.M. Oliva, February 6, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Bill Gates and Michael Milken: The War on Capitalism, Then and Now
  It's interesting to compare Bill Gates' and Microsoft's victory last Friday in obtaining a favorable settlement of their antrust case with another battle in the war on capitalism from ten years ago -- one that turned out very, very differently. - Don Luskin, November 7, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]

• A Letter to the Department of Justice Concerning the Microsoft Antitrust Case
  Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Oracle and now AOL want to use the predatory power of government to skew the market in their favor. They want the government to protect them from the free market. - Joe Wright, August 16, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Maybe it's all Microsoft's fault?
  - Craige McMillan, May 23, 2002 [WorldNetDaily]

• Pundit, Unbundle Thyself
  Why is there so much religious passion in the tone of the Microsoft critics? Why is it so difficult to understand that the marketplace is a far better evaluator of Microsoft's product than a federal judge who tries to synthesize, express, and enforce the whims of 20 million consumers whom he’s never talked to? - Ted Roberts, March 19, 2002 [Mises]

• Netscape Gets the Green "W"
  AOL Time Warner Netscape is thus revealed as an enemy of freedom and progress. - Sheldon Richman, March 2002 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• AOL Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
  Instead of competing in the marketplace -- where it's been battered lately -- AOL has decided to compete in the courts. - James K. Glassman, January 27, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Microsoft Goes to School: You're An Evil Predator; Now Teach My Kids
  - Nick Schulz, November 23, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• The Wreckage of the Microsoft Case
  "Once again, we have found that the political classes have engaged in wholesale looting, pillaging, and destruction, all in the name of 'protecting consumers.'" - William L. Anderson, November 7, 2001 [Mises]

• A Back to School Warning: Anti-Trust Law After Microsoft
  - David Dieteman, August 31, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Anti-Microsoft Baloney
  Fortunately, privacy issues are not dominated by left-liberal "consumer advocates" who perceive threats to privacy from criss-cross phone directories, junk mail, and maps on the Internet. - Bill Fason, August 18, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Microsoft Conspiracy
  - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, March 2001 [Mises]

• Microsoft Assault is an Inept Stab at "Industrial Policy"
  - Daniel J. Mitchell, January 31, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Microsoft and the Mythology of Anti-trust "Law"
  - Thomas Sowell, January 12, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Bill Gates, Judge Jackson, and Compulsive Spenders
  Judge Jackson’s infantile remarks about Bill Gates should not be surprising. They are merely symptomatic of a fundamental flaw in the nature of American government, namely, its addiction to monopoly and the politics of envy. - David Dieteman, January 11, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Microsoft's Illusory Barrier to Entry
  In sum, the so-called applications barrier to entry is not what the judge has made it out to be. - Richard McKenzie, September 2, 2000 [CATO]

• The Theft of Microsoft
  ...it's time to repeal the antitrust laws and let firms compete in a free marketplace. - David Boaz, July 27, 2000 [CATO]

• Playing Monopoly
  - Joseph Sobran, June 23, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Trotskyite Line on Microsoft
  - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., June 5, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

• Microsoft antitrust ruling: More costly than all the bank robbers in history
  The Justice Department's plan to break up Microsoft is not just a bad legal decision -- it's a case of "bureaucratic grand larceny" that has already stolen more wealth from Americans than all the bank robbers in history, the Libertarian Party charged today. - Released May 3, 2000 [LP Press Release]

• When the Violent Attack the Peaceful
  - Sheldon Richman, May 2000 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Railroading of Microsoft
  How the antitrust laws stack the deck in court against successful companies like Microsoft. - Robert W. Tracinski, April 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]

• The Gates-Rockefeller Myth
  - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, February 23, 2000 [Mises]

• Anti-Microsoft Conservatives: They Just Don't Get It
  Most conservatives, and virtually all libertarians, understand that Microsoft alone created its operating system and has a right to sell the system as it sees fit. Of course, antitrust law pays little attention to such niceties as property rights. - January 5, 2000 [CATO]

• Why Microsoft Should Have Won
  Here's the lesson that high-tech companies can glean from Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings in the Microsoft case: If you're sufficiently ambitious, competent, and hard-working; if you're willing to risk your time and fortune; if you succeed at rising above your competition by serving customers with better products; then watch out, because our government will come down on your neck with the force and effect of a guillotine. - Robert A. Levy, November 8, 1999 [CATO]

• The Lynching of Microsoft
  Reading Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact in the Microsoft case, you can't help but conclude that the software company wouldn't be in trouble if it didn't make life so easy for consumers. - Sheldon Richman, November 1999 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• U.S. v. Microsoft: Time for a Reality Check
  Let's hope Judge Jackson has the vision and good sense not to mutate antitrust into a corporate welfare program for disgruntled competitors. - Robert A. Levy, September 11, 1999 [CATO]

• Microsoft Trial: The Heat is On
  Despite lack of any showing of consumer harm, the debate on potential "remedies" is already in full swing – with the DOJ reportedly contemplating a break-up of Microsoft. - Jonathan Zuck, August 13, 1999 [CEI]

• Microsoft, Monopoly, and Consumer Harm
  According to this extract from the book, "Winners, Losers, and Microsoft," Microsoft appears responsible for a good portion of the software price decreases that have occurred in the last decade. - Stan Liebowitz, March 1999

• Microsoft is no monopoly
  If Microsoft had such enormous market power, how come it could "coerce" only 33% of its users to upgrade to its flagship product? - Robert Levy, January 15, 1999 [CATO]

• Microsoft and Creativity
  - Andrew Layman, December 1998 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Antitrust for Fun and Profit
  Janet Reno couldn't get the hang of computers. By her own account, she couldn't tell "what was on the hard drive, what was on the soft drive." So she prefers "paper and pencil." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., August 1998 [Mises]

• Pile on Microsoft
  The company Bill Gates built into the planet's leading money machine is still the target of a federal probe and a senate inquiry. The charge: anti-competitive behavior. - Françoise Melese, February 1998 [Mises]

• Blocking Prosperity
  Antitrust does not promote the public interest, but rather the private interests of selected corporations and unions. - Thomas J. DiLorenzo, August 1998 [Mises]

• Punishing Success
  Let's cut to the chase: It's Microsoft's property. - Sheldon Richman, May 1998 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• A Double Standard of Justice Toward Microsoft
  Antitrust laws, which seek to aborgate control over one's property which is one's right, are driven by one thing only: the envy of the second-hander. - Joseph Kellard, January 5, 1998 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Reno and the Potato Heads
  Competition is a process, the Austrian economists have long said, not a moment frozen in time. Today's dominant company could be tomorrow's rubble. Whether the winner can stay on top is dependent on its management, its ability to innovate, and, above all, the will of the consuming public... - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., January 1998 [Mises]

• The Hounding of Microsoft
  - Geoffrey Brent McGuire, September 1995 [Mises]