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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.222359.25528@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Dec23.030133.75057@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Dec28.233306.1746@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.124550.10847@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1992Dec29.194001.13392@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:23:59 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec29.124550.10847@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
-
- >|> >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.
-
- >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.
-
- Nothing really. It is just that you stated that the only way a "big company"
- can etc... I just wanted to point out that that isn't true and that
- there are other means of driving someone else out of business.
- The large company could also decide to skip making profit for a while
- until the competition died. The small company on the other hand can not
- afford such a practice, so, even if they are equally efficient and
- maybe even of equal quality, the small company would still die on
- account of the others hugeness. (Note: this is no reference to any
- existing or past situation whatsoever)
-
-
- >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.
-
- If that is what they do, then you are absolutely right. I, only
- knowing of your government what I read in papers and see on the
- news, can not make a judgement about that, because this impression
- seems to unreal to be true.
-
- Erik
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