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This is basically a covert, and mild, form of polygamy: High-status males get to monopolize more than one fertile woman.
Now European telecoms and communication bureaucrats spend their energies on blocking innovation and searching for ways to monopolize a new enterprise whose entire soul is decentralization.
But he makes his points: Microsoft has monopoly power for operating systems; Microsoft maintained its operating system monopoly through anti-competitive practices; Microsoft used that monopoly to try to monopolize the browser market; Microsoft engaged in contracts and conspiracies in restraint of trade.
Or, to the extent that it really means keep the government out, it sounds like an attempt by the earlier settlers of the new domain to monopolize its structure at the expense of later comers who wish to play by a different set of rules in some portion of that space.
A better comparison for Gates would have been John D. Rockefeller, who sought to monopolize the fuel that went into automobiles.