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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Be more creative than the FTC!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.194131.27824@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec29.005811.2728@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:41:31 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec22.180054.1107@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- : |> : |> AT&T?
- : |> :
- : |> : AT&T was only a monopoly because the goverment wouldn't allow other companies
- : |> : to compete with it. In fact, I challenge you to name a single monopoly
- : |> : which wasn't a monopoly because a goverment outlawed competition with it.
- : |> : Name one which was a monopoly in America before the antitrust laws came in.
- : |> : You can even name companies in countries which don't have antitrust laws.
- : |>
- : |> Standard Oil anyone?
- :
- :
- : When it was broken up in 1911 by the Shermen Antitrust act, it only had a 66%
- : share of the market. Not even the great John D. Rockafeller himself could
- : create as monopoly in a free market.
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- If its 66% market share was no big deal, why was it broken up?
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
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