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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.193928.8003@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:39:28 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec22.120639.23608@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec23.091821.7707@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec28.232207.1612@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.232207.1612@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >
- >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.
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- How about professional baseball or football in the U.S.? Neither
- was government created - both are monopolies.
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- -Phil
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