Few issues in high technology are as divisive as the current debate over
competition, innovation, and antitrust. Analyzing famous examples of
economic "lock-in" by dominant corporations of supposedly inferior
products, this book makes the case that free markets in high technology
industry deliver better products to consumers, at lower prices, without
government intervention. This publication's careful scholarship,
well-founded hypotheses, and refutations of previously accepted
theories--extending far beyond the Microsoft case--make this publication
a vital piece of understanding for the future of technology and
economics.