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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.211053.1358@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1993Jan4.005754.13851@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:10:53 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan3.013842.23102@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- :
- : |> : 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."
-
- Ah, but now you are expecting Japan, and every other country in the
- world, to play by *your* rules. Why should they?
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
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