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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!jwhite
  2. From: jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  4. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
  5. Message-ID: <29103@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
  6. Date: 30 Dec 92 14:02:50 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec23.091821.7707@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec28.232207.1612@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.193928.8003@microsoft.com>
  8. Organization: Annapolis Detachment, CARDEROCKDIV, NSWC  Code 2723 
  9.           (formerly David Taylor Research Center, Annapolis MD)
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  12. In article <1992Dec29.193928.8003@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
  13.  
  14. >     How about professional baseball or football in the U.S.?  Neither
  15. >was government created - both are monopolies.
  16.  
  17. But both had anti-trust exemptions granted by the government!  So
  18. while the government didn't create them, they have certainly helped
  19. them continue.  
  20.  
  21. Joe White
  22.