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Subject: 
Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 11 Oct 2001 02:05:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:

- There are certain products (not too many of them, actually) that
   require a monopoly.

False. There are no natural monopolies. Monopolies only exist because there
are unnatural barriers to entry erected by governments

...or corporations...

for some antimarket
reason.

:wq

AAAAHHH! VI! ptui. EMACS uber alles.

Thats vi please. VI will generally result in sh: VI: not found or something
similar. As will EMACS (except if you use some inferior operating system, sold
by some corporate monopoly 8?)

Oh, OK, you could create a VI/EMACS alias or shell script or something - that
doesn't count.



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  Re: Gotta love Oracle...
 
(...) With government assistance. Free market corporations can erect no such barriers. Not effective ones, anyway. QED (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) But this is, in fact, false, in just about every case, except for the last mile on each end. Roads form a mesh and while there may not be space to build two parallel roads which are exactly equivalent in distance, that is not necessary. It is (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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