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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ecn.purdue.edu!helz
  3. From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
  4. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.194337.27456@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
  6. Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
  7. Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
  8. References: <1992Dec23.091821.7707@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec28.232207.1612@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.193928.8003@microsoft.com> <29103@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Dec30.165838.3637@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
  9. Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:43:37 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Dec30.165838.3637@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
  13. |> In <29103@oasys.dt.navy.mil> jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White) writes:
  14. |> 
  15. |> >In article <1992Dec29.193928.8003@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
  16. |> 
  17. |> >>     How about professional baseball or football in the U.S.?  Neither
  18. |> >>was government created - both are monopolies.
  19. |> 
  20. |> >But both had anti-trust exemptions granted by the government!  So
  21. |> >while the government didn't create them, they have certainly helped
  22. |> >them continue.  
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  25. OK, could somebody explain to me why professional baseball and football are
  26. monopolies?
  27.