With how monolithic operating systems are and how much gets built on top of them and requires them, we really need legislation to prevent this kind of greed. There is no free market and no freedom of choice when it comes to OSes because of that dependency.
With how monolithic operating systems are and how much gets built on top of them and requires them, we really need legislation to prevent this kind of greed. There is no free market and no freedom of choice when it comes to OSes because of that dependency.
There is legislation against it, but it has to be enforced to actually be illegal.
Edit: and enforcing it would require legislatures that understand it. Most of our legislatures were born before color TVs existed.