Technology has always been prone to winner takes all. In 1969, the US anti-trust agency began proceedings against IBM, then the world’s leading computer company. The case dragged on for 13 very long years, and although it was later rejected by the courts, the whole affair illustrated the nature of the market: the company, at the time, was dominating the hardware, software and technology services market. In 2001, Microsoft was accused of monopoly practices after it cornered the personal computer market, making it very difficult to buy one that wasn’t already installed with Windows.

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