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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 11 Oct 2001 03:07:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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...
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> With government assistance.
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> Free market corporations can erect no such barriers. Not effective ones,
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
least a little bit) by government.
ROSCO
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