From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 27 15: 9:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB1A37B408 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:09:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi.concentric.net [206.173.118.71]) by uhura.concentric.net [Concentric SMTP Routing 1.0] id f7RM9qr04012 ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:09:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ts002d31.mer-id.concentric.net (ts002d31.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.91]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id SAA04895; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:09:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:07:49 -0600 (MDT) From: ML Duke To: David Johnson Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers In-Reply-To: <3B8AB76C.B6246BB0@acuson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, David Johnson wrote: >Someone 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. ML Duke wrote: > > 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 rather agree. But there it was -- foolishness demanding an answer. Couldn't help myself :)) Sorry 'bout that. ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message