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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.005754.13851@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan2.232506.2843@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan3.013842.23102@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:57:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.013842.23102@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
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- |> : 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?
-
- Yes! And that is exactly the reason why we should have as few laws as
- is necessary.
-
- |> : 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?
-
- Two wrongs don't make a right! Trying to fix American industry by starting
- another trade war would be like proscribing arsenic to a man who is dying
- from eating rat poison. On a level playing field, Americans can compete
- with the Japanese--its just that the Japanese government doesn't clobber
- sucessful Japanese companies over the head when they become "too sucessful."
-