home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ecn.purdue.edu!helz
- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: Be more creative than the FTC!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.073807.20386@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec29.005811.2728@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.194131.27824@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:38:07 GMT
- Lines: 22
-
- In article <1992Dec29.194131.27824@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> If its 66% market share was no big deal, why was it broken up?
-
- Because there was an unjust law passed which arbitrarily made illegal what they
- were doing.
-