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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.232207.1612@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec21.225330.14706@nosc.mil> <9212213006@ritz.mordor.com> <1992Dec22.120639.23608@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec23.091821.7707@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:22:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.091821.7707@actrix.gen.nz>, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- |> >
- |> > 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?)
-
- Yes I do read history. Read on......
-
- |> 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.
-
- BZZZZZT!!!! Thanks for playing.
- Standard Oil at its height was _never_ a monopoly.
-
- If Standard Oil is the best example of a monopoly that you can come up with
- then we have nothing to fear from monopolies. When they were broken up
- by the Sherman Antitrust act in 1911 they only had 66% of the Market. Not
- even the great John D. Rockafeller could make a monopoly.
-
- Please try again: Can you name a real, genuine, monopoly in _any_ country
- at _any_ time (before or after antitrust legislation or in a country without
- antitrust legislation) that wasn't created by a government? You can't
- do it because there never has been such a beast. Markets which the goverment
- stays out of are very harsh on monopolies.
-