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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.180233.29581@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec22.113330.22921@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec27.191705.7069@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Dec29.015526.3909@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1hpr2dINN80o@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Dec29.194407.13490@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:02:33 GMT
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- In <1992Dec29.194407.13490@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
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- >In article <1hpr2dINN80o@tamsun.tamu.edu>, bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
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- >|> How about the situation when they charge more than the minimum for a
- >|> "reasonable" profit, but not enough for someone else to afford the R&D
- >|> costs to enter the market. Startup costs, before you have a product
- >|> and before you have name recognition, are not negligible. This
- >|> situation keeps prices high and the end consumer pays.
-
- >|> You will probably ask: What is "reasonable"? A fair question.
-
- >Under your scenario above (where Standard Oil keeps prices low enough that
- >others are discoureged from entring the market) I would say that Standard Oil
- >was charging a reasonable price. If nobody can beat your price, then you've
- >certainly got a reasonable price.
-
- See any decent intermediate economics textbook for an explanation of
- why this is NOT best for the industry, the consumer, or the country.
- It IS best for the monopoly exerciser, of course, which is why
- companies with monopoly power are willing to work so hard and cut such
- corners to try to maintain it.
-
- In other words, to be blunt, you don't know what you're talking about.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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