Illegal behaviour or just an unfair advantage?

I read this article from The Inquirer a while ago.  The first thing that sprung into my mind was- surely this is anticompetitive? 

Obviously the laws and regulations are different in South Korea, but its even more interesting if you take a look at snapshots over the years, for example in 2005 South Korea fined Microsoft for an antitrust ruling (along with most of the world!).

That was after South Korea declared their support for open source software in 2003.

Pretty interesting stuff, I wonder how the world will react to Vista SP? aka Windows 7 when it hits at the end of 2009.  Will we see 'fair' adoption by those in the know due to the technical merits, will Microsoft's history work against them, or will we be 'forced' to upgrade....hummm...

The cloud OS story is another matter!

Posted at 11:04PM Nov 10, 2008 by Matt Hosanee in Thoughts  |  Comments[0]