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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.013842.23102@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 01:38:42 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.232506.2843@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan2.060223.4340@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- :
- : |> The arguments about Microsoft not holding a gun to anyone's head are
- : |> irrelevant. That isn't the point of antitrust law.
- :
- : My point isn't that Microsoft _isn't_ holding a gun to anyone's head as much
- : as the FTC _is_. The antitrust laws are unjust from an abstract moral
- : viewpoint because they are based on the premise that the ends (hacking
- : Microsoft down to size) justify the means (in effect, armed robbery of
- : market share by the FTC) which is bogus.
-
- Isn't that the basis for most laws which involve punitive action?
-
- : They are also unjust from a
- : pragmatic view because they allow companies from countries like Japan to
- : have an unfair competative advantage over U.S. industries--result: we don't
- : manufacure DRAM, LCD displays, Cameras, VCR's etc etc here anymore, and our
- : factory workers "enjoy" a lower wage than Japanese factory workers
- : do.
-
- Surely the US could have legislation which discriminated against
- imports without changing the anti-trust laws?
-
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