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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Be more creative than the FTC!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.180054.1107@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec22.115432.23467@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:00:54 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec21.233918.14782@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>, rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
- : |> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : |>
- : |> >Why don't Novel, Lotus, et al, find a more creative solution to their problem
- : |> >than just using the FTC as a club against Microsoft? Here are some better
- : |> >alternatives:
- : |>
- : |> Did you whine like this when MCI forced the government to break up
- : |> AT&T?
- :
- : AT&T was only a monopoly because the goverment wouldn't allow other companies
- : to compete with it. In fact, I challenge you to name a single monopoly
- : which wasn't a monopoly because a goverment outlawed competition with it.
- : Name one which was a monopoly in America before the antitrust laws came in.
- : You can even name companies in countries which don't have antitrust laws.
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- Standard Oil anyone?
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