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- From: jbrock@csfb1.fir.fbc.com (John Brock)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
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- References: <1992Dec21.154910.6846@kth.se> <1992Dec21.164545.28198@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzn3M2.IvJ@csfb1.fir.fbc.com> <1992Dec22.045145.15784@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:01:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.045145.15784@tc.cornell.edu>, bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- |> In article <Bzn3M2.IvJ@csfb1.fir.fbc.com> uunet!csfb1!jbrock writes:
- |>
- |> >I get the impression that you are one of those people who have elevated
- |> >the free market to the status of an absolute moral value. So you may
- |> >not be willing to acknowledge one of the flaws in the free market
- |> >system, which is that it is unstable, and that it is all too easy for
- |> >one company to gain such an advantage in a particular market as to
- |> >permanently stifle any competition.
- |>
- |> What is your evidence that MS actually stifled competition ? I
- |> see only more and more products for less and less prices, with IBM
- |> in a good position to make the NT project go down the drain.
- |>
- |> >--
- |> >John Brock
- |> >uunet!csfb1!jbrock
- |> >jbrock@csfb1.fir.fbc.com
- |>
- |> Dov
- |>
-
- I'm not real interested in arguing the details of this particular
- case. I made a general statement about the free market system, which
- is that it is flawed in that it allows monopolies, and that we try to
- patch this flaw by interfering with the market. I also said that some
- people treat the free market as a moral value, and are unwilling to
- acknowledge any intrinsic flaws in the free market system, and that I
- suspect you are one of these people. So I guess my question is are you
- defending Microsoft because you don't think it has behaved in such a
- way as to warrent interference, or because you think it is always
- immoral to interfere with the free market? If the former, then I would
- be interested to know what you think Microsoft would have to do before
- intervention was warrented. If the latter, then my original suggestion
- stands. Go elect some politicians who think as you do.
-
- --
- John Brock
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- jbrock@csfb1.fir.fbc.com
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