From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 27 14:11:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFCC37B405 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA6668; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:11:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3B8AB76C.B6246BB0@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:11:08 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ML Duke Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ML Duke wrote: > > > > > antitrust laws were written. Any economic prof will tell you that in a > > > > purely capitalistic system, that ultimately all global markets will > > > > collapse into monopolies. A system of monopolies is the normal end result > > > > state of a pure free market. > > Nonsense. Monopolies can only exist in the presence of a collectivist > system of government that accepts bribes to pass laws that suppress > competition -- exactly the situation today. Oh man! We are really off topic now, aren't we? I would love to get involved in this discussion, as I have definite opinions on this, and have actually studied economics. But this topic has absolutely no business being on this mailing list. This is FREEBSD-NEWBIES. Discussion Microsoft is vaguely relevant. Discussion Microsoft as a monopoly is vaguely relevant. But arguing about capitalism, the good or evil of antitrust legislation, and monopolies in general, is completely irrelevant for the newbie wanting to talk about FreeBSD. My opinion is to move the discussion off list. Thanks, David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message