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Re: Murderer Reno's real crime...
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Sat, 6 May 2000 15:24:00 GMT
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Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and his revolutionary program Windows.
Nevermind the fact that he stole this program after IBM contracted him to
create it. Oh and how about that whole 'force consumer to install Internet
Explorer deal.' The whole stock prices crap is obviously a sign that investors
have no clue as to what is for the better. Microsoft will only exist untill
the genral public realizes that its products are shody and best when compared
to its competitors. The goverment is merely speeding up the process.
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Enough said.
-Lord Insanity
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dan Boger writes:
> > Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > I'm not sure what's your point here?
>
> Apologies for repetition, here are my views:
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> - There is no such thing as a natural monopoly. All true monopolies are a
> result of government interference that raise barriers to entry. Get rid of
> barriers to entry and you won't have monopolies. Time Warner, for instance,
> isn't going to be lobbying for making cable access any easier any time soon,
> nor is Disney going to be lobbying for easing restrictions on who can get
> broadcast licenses. They love their nice legal protection rackets.
>
> - MS on the other hand hasn't stopped anyone from coming up with different
> OS's, browsers, app software or anything else. They're just better (for now,
> Linux is gaining fast in the server market) at building them.
>
> - The antitrust laws are morally wrong, vague and impossible to apply fairly,
> they have been ever since they were enacted. EVERY time they have been used
> against a big company at the peak of its prowess (US Steel, Standard Oil, the
> Harriman rail lines, IBM, ATT and now MS) huge amounts of money have been
> spent, fortunes wrecked and companies destroyed for no benefit. Every time,
> consumers have bene worse off as a result of it. Further, in every case, the
> tide would have turned against the company that had the bulk of the market
> anyway once technology changed.
>
> - Therefore they're used as a bludgeon to go after whoever the government
> chooses to at the time for whatever political agenda is being promoted. They
> should be erased off the books because they are just a tool for politicians to
> cause trouble. Or at least not enforced like 10,000,000 other silly laws which
> fortunately are less damaging.
>
> - Microsoft is not a monopoly, merely has a large share of the market. Which • it
> earned fair and square, in the process making the world a much better place.
>
> - Microsoft may not be my favorite company, but hasn't done anything actually
> *wrong*, it merely got entrapped by laws that are wrong in the first place and
> certainly especially wrong when applied to one of the engines of our economy
> that has created an inordinate amount of wealth for some very deserving • people.
> (like me for one) (Arguably MS is more responsible for the growth of the
> internet than anyone else because Windows (although not as easy to use as the
> Mac OS, which would be much more popular if not for Apple arrogance) is easy • to
> use and is everywhere)
>
> - The government in its haste to loot MS (and the coincidentally at almost the
> same time looting of the gene sequencers by saying that their work had to go
> into the public domain) may well kill off our nice boom, the longest expansion
> ever, started by Reagan and his free market policies. For what? Because Bill
> didn't give enough to the Democratic party in protection money?
>
> The rape of MS may not be Reno's bloodiest crime, but it's her biggest.
>
> ++Lar
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| (...) Apologies for repetition, here are my views: - There is no such thing as a natural monopoly. All true monopolies are a result of government interference that raise barriers to entry. Get rid of barriers to entry and you won't have monopolies. (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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