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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:18:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.091821.7707@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Dec21.225330.14706@nosc.mil> <9212213006@ritz.mordor.com> <1992Dec22.120639.23608@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1992Dec22.120639.23608@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- > In article <9212213006@ritz.mordor.com>, ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
- >
- > |> Gates. Just remember how expensive long distance service was before the
- > |> government forced a more competetive market on Ma Bell...or should I say
- > |> before Bill McGowan (former chairman of MCI) tricked the federal government
- > |> into forcing a more competetive market on Ma Bell... :-)
- >
- > Agreed, but a more precise wording would be "Just remember how expensive
- > long distance service was before the goverment stopped forbiding people
- > to compete with AT&T."
- >
- > AT&T was only a monopoly because it was illegal to compete with it. In fact,
- > I can't name a single example of a monopoly which wasn't created by
- > the goverment.
- >
-
- Groan.....you don't know of any monopolies because the FTC has been breaking
- them up since the 1920's.......(doesn't anybody read history anymore?)
-
- Standard Oil (You know, J D Rockefeller) was broken up because it bacame an
- effective monopoly. IBM was very nearly broken up. There are numerous
- instances of too-powerful companies being forced to relinquish control over
- markets.
-
- Steve
-
- oh, Yeah......OS/2 (gotta stay on topic, right?)
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- --
- Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | On Sept. 19th, 88% of NZ voters opted
- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | for proportional representation. It
- +64 4 478 4714 | looks like we may get a more
- **** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | democratic system "real soon now".
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