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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 11 Oct 2001 02:38:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:
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> > > - There are certain products (not too many of them, actually) that
> > > require a monopoly.
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> > False. There are no natural monopolies. Monopolies only exist because there
> > are unnatural barriers to entry erected by governments
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> ...or corporations...
With government assistance.
Free market corporations can erect no such barriers. Not effective ones, anyway.
QED
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| (...) anyway. I agree Larry. It was just a quip to go with the dig about M$ further down. Though M$ has had (at least temporarily) an effective monopoly on PC operating systems, it *was* only temporary, and was most likely aided along the way (at (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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| (...) Can you elaborate a bit on government assistance for, say, Microsoft, then? I really don't see them. Or would you say Microsoft has no monopoly on PC operating systems? They start to fear Linux these days, but only due to *regulations*, not (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) ...or corporations... (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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