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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.194001.13392@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec23.030133.75057@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Dec28.233306.1746@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.124550.10847@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:40:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.124550.10847@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
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- |> >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.
- |>
- |> And not the potential of a big company to produce at lower costs and
- |> the consumers wish to get the cheapest product still valuable. Right
- |> you are.
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- What do you have against a big, efficient company producing a valuable
- product at a cheap price? The only reason we have a higher standard of
- living than our ancestors is that we can produce products more efficiently
- and cheaper than they could.
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- When goverments intervene to make it harder for companies to produce products
- cheaply (which is exactly what the FTC is trying to do to Microsoft),
- they increase and perpetuate human misery by making it impossible
- for poor people to buy what they need.
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