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Their monopoly was brutely enforced . Due to their monopoly on the information and the marketplace for it , subscription rates have increased by leaps and bounds - - sometimes as much as 25 to 35 percent per year according to Michael Keller , who oversees the libraries at Stanford University . Prof. Jonathan Baker : This morning 's argument was about things Microsoft did to maintain its monopoly of Windows . The most important characteristic of IP is its monopoly feature . European Union antitrust regulators Wednesday cleared the long-term alliance between KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Italy 's national carrier Alitalia SpA ., after the airlines agreed to end their monopoly on flights between Amsterdam and the Italian hubs at Milan and Rome . Very briefly , the competition policy chapter in the Singapore-US FTA , on which the Thailand-US agreement is likely to be modeled , requires each party to ( i ) maintain measures to proscribe anticompetitive conduct , ( ii ) prohibit SOEs from engaging in restrictive trade practices or abusing their monopoly position unless granted an exception on efficiency grounds , and ( iii ) ensure that SOEs act solely in accordance with commercial considerations in the sale and purchase of goods or services . While Microsoft ’ s involvement with SCO has not been particularly close , its monopoly in the operating system field means its presence is constantly felt . We had occasion to contrast the two deeds : that promoting science and advancing the progress of mankind and peace , and the cowardly and unscrupulous mercenary invasion , which the imperial - ists , inspired by the desire to recover their privileges and their monopolies , launched against our country . When , some ten years ago , Americans expressed concern over the Russian edge in manpower , we were reassured by our monopoly of nuclear power . The new entrant invariably requires access to something that the incumbent has , and the incumbent naturally wishes to preserve its monopoly profits . When , some ten , years ago , Americans expressed concern over the Russian edge in manpower , we were reassured by our monopoly of nuclear power . Computers keep eroding our monopoly on intellectual power , as gas and electricity did with our physical powers before . Sure , monopolists generally " earn " their monopoly initially in the sense that they crush the competition by innovation , etc. But the United States , just by virtue of its monopoly over the means of violence and terror , has succeeded in establishing its conditions .