The Pro-competitive Value of Closed Platforms & Walled Gardens: Some Thoughts In Response to Tim Wu

There has been a great deal of recent discussion, both inside and outside of antitrust circles, on the merits of “open” as opposed to “closed” business structures. Much of this discussion focuses on key technology markets, in which competition among products and systems that exhibit relative degrees of “openness” is commonplace and longstanding. An increasingly vocal group of openness advocates has begun to suggest tha