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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.233306.1746@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec23.030133.75057@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:33:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.030133.75057@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS) writes:
- |>
- |> A monopoly doesn't need to be 100% in real life. True that would be a
- |> technical definition, but the effect is that a company with such overwhelming
- |> market share gets to call the shots.
-
- A companies _customers_ calls the shots no matter how big the company is.
- Its the customers who give it the market share that it has.
-
- |> And they should be squashed out of existance. I don't see how the government
- |> limiting the growth of a big company is worse moraly or economically than the
- |> big company squashing a little company.
-
- Look at it this way. The only way a "big company" can put a "little company"
- out of business is for the customers of the little company to _voluntarily_
- of their _own_free_will_ to _choose_ to buy from the big company instead.
- In other words, it is the freewill choice of the customers which puts _any_
- company, big or little out of business.
-
- Contrast that with how a goverment puts a company out of business: It does
- so at gunpoint. If the company resists, the goverment will use deadly force
- to threaten them into complience.
-
- I don't see why its so hard to see the difference, because the differece could
- not be greater. Its the difference between voluntary action and forced
- action. Its the difference between freedom and slavery.
-