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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.004321.26180@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:43:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.232207.1612@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.193928.8003@microsoft.com> <29103@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <29103@oasys.dt.navy.mil> jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White) writes:
- >> How about professional baseball or football in the U.S.? Neither
- >>was government created - both are monopolies.
- >But both had anti-trust exemptions granted by the government! So
- >while the government didn't create them, they have certainly helped
- >them continue.
-
- Professional baseball's monopoly is legally protected by special
- exemption. There is no similar protection for professional football.
- In fact, the now defunct United States Football League won its civil
- suit against the NFL. Damages were set at one dollar, but they did
- win. The case is still active.
-
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