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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.001528.2087@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec23.035807.76425@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:15:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.035807.76425@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS) writes:
- |> You came up with one yourself. Morton Salt. Or did that just slip your mind?
- |> How about Matashita? (sp?) They have a virtual monopoly on an number of
- |> aspects of the consumer electronics industry. These are monopolies because
- |> the government lets them be, not because it is illeagle to compete with them.
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- Point one, neither Morton salt nor Matashita are 100% monopolies. And
- point two, Mogul Morton isn't oppressing the worthy poor by high salt prices,
- and neither is Matashita. What's more neither is Bill Gates.
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-
- |> So using vague phrases like "stealing trade secrets" and "immoral laws"
- |> confuses the issue any less?
-
- Ok, I'll be more precise. The FTC is going to point the guns of policemen
- at the head of Bill Gates and steal from him at gunpoint his undocumented
- operating system calls.
-
- What's more, the FTC is going to point guns at the heads of Bill Gate's
- programmers, and at gunpoint prevent them from excercising their freedom
- of speech.
-
- I say that armed robbery is wrong no matter if I do it or the FTC does it.
- I further say that threatening someone into silence is wrong if I do it
- or the FTC does it.
-