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- From: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com (W. Donald Rolph)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.074727@roper.mc.ti.com>
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- Organization: Texas Instruments / Attleboro Mass / USA
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:47:27 GMT
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- You have an interesting definition of a monopoly which, I thnik, doesn't quite
- square with the legal definition of a monopoly. For all practical economic
- purposes a single company with thast much market share is a monopoly as far as
- fixning market price and practices go.
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- IN some sense we have let this happen to ourselves by not demanding that a
- competitive environment provide what microsoft has decided to provide, that is
- to say a large reasonable coherent environment and infrastructure of computing
- capacity which meets the real needs of end users.
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- Regards.
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- Don Rolph a722756@pan.mc.ti.com WD3 MS10-13 (508)-699-1263
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