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Also, it's a bit apples-to-oranges in comparing the OS market to the HD format war.
In the former, there is clearly room for more than one OS. The market has produced a plurality, with MS, Apple and Linux, plus the mobile OSs.
In the case of HD formats, that's a bit more of a cartel-ish situation. It's rare that such standards are competitive for any period of time. In fact, the industry could not move forward until the coalesced around a single technology.
But if they won the format wars by bribing a government official, that would suddenly not be OK in libertarian theory. Which just shows that libertarianism is making a huge informational exclusion, being categorically unable to find offense with wrongs of private enterprise (perhaps they even have a defence for Bhopal disaster) but being able to see the slightest action by a government (providing for public schools, for example) as wrong.