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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:53:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.173849.3110@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
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- >Your argument is neat and tidy and ideologically driven. You are completely
- >correct, of course, but the *practical* outcome (ie. final result) of the pure
- >application of your point would see us living in a very unhappy world
- >dominated by one or two massive monopolies.......and no market.
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- How do you know that I did not learn history ? Do you think that
- if one studies history then he/she must reach _your_ conclusions
- and nothing else ? Your historical conclusions are far from being
- uncontested.
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- At least in this case there is no shred of evidence for price-fixing.
- But these _contemporary_ facts does not even trigger you to _question_
- your historical conclusions. You take your historical conclusions
- as _absolutes_, not as an hypothesis.
-
- >The FTC is just another
- >market "force". It acts to restore competition when the market fails. Yes,
-
- Why do you insist calling it a _market_-force ? It is just force
- in a literal sense. Simply say that in your opinion force should be
- used against MS to restore competition.
-
- >Steve
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- Dov
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