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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.005625.2589@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec22.113330.22921@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.180708.1169@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:56:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.180708.1169@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- |> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- |> [....]
- |> : We need fear Microsoft becomming a monopoly no more than we needed to
- |> : fear Standard Oil. History clearly shows that the free market was
- |> : working to reduce Standard Oil's market share. And if we don't use the
- |> : FTC as a club to beat Microsoft into the ground, history will again show
- |> : that the free market in computer software will work fine too.
- |>
- |> Ah the great god of the free market. Tell me, does the free market
- |> help to provide medical care for the entire population of the US?
-
- This is getting off of the subject, but with the Federal Goverment paying
- for over 60% of the health care, we don't have a free market in
- medical care now.
-
- |> Does
- |> the free market - so vigorously espoused by the IMF and the World Bank
- |> - help to keep third world countries out of debt and to feed their
- |> populations? I read this morning that the police in the Ukraine cannot
- |> even drive to most crime scenes because under the fabulous free market
- |> system they don't have the gas to do so.
-
- I'm afraid that the Ukraine doesn't have a free market in policemen either. :-)
-
- |> The free market system is another attempt by mankind to regulate
- |> affairs. It is not cast in stone, it is not holy write - and it
- |> doesn't work.
-
- It doesn't provide Utopia, but that's not one of the options. Are you saying
- that the Ukraine goverment, which can't even run a police department, should
- run their economy too? :-)
-