[X Newbies] OS stability

[Alex]

On Tuesday, Mar 30, 2004, at 13:31 Canada/Eastern, Steven Rogers wrote:

> [...] You could say that the USPS has a monopoly on letter delivery, 
> because nobody else can do it. If you use monopoly to describe a 
> freely made choice, then it becomes an essentially meaningless 
> term.[...]

On the linguistic issue: Monopoly implies exclusivity (e.g., in some 
jurisdictions in North America, the sale of alcohol is a state 
monopoly). The technical term for MS's dominance of the personal 
computer market is oligopoly.

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