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Well, you of course have the freedom to bundle your software however you want. But you're not a company with one of the most effective monopolies in the world history, with a history of abusing that dominant position, and trying to use the dominant position of one of their products to create a monopoly in another market. Is it unfair that you personally are treated different than Microsoft? Maybe, but laws aren't necessarily about fairness.

Competition laws exist for a reason. In the real world, there are points where regulation is needed to ensure a working market. Do you think it's "unfair" that companies in an oligopoly aren't allowed to form a price-fixing cartel. Is it unfair to forbid predatory pricing to drive out competitors? Or that companies might be forced to sell services to their competitors at regulated prices? That two companies with large market shares in a market with little competition might not be allowed to merge?

I guess to somebody all of that might be unfair. But I for one would not want to live in an unregulated corporate dystopia.



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