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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.180708.1169@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:07:08 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- [....]
- : We need fear Microsoft becomming a monopoly no more than we needed to
- : fear Standard Oil. History clearly shows that the free market was
- : working to reduce Standard Oil's market share. And if we don't use the
- : FTC as a club to beat Microsoft into the ground, history will again show
- : that the free market in computer software will work fine too.
-
- Ah the great god of the free market. Tell me, does the free market
- help to provide medical care for the entire population of the US? Does
- the free market - so vigorously espoused by the IMF and the World Bank
- - help to keep third world countries out of debt and to feed their
- populations? I read this morning that the police in the Ukraine cannot
- even drive to most crime scenes because under the fabulous free market
- system they don't have the gas to do so.
-
- The free market system is another attempt by mankind to regulate
- affairs. It is not cast in stone, it is not holy write - and it
- doesn't work.
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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