From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 17: 4:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D94437B405 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 87162 invoked by uid 100); 10 Aug 2001 00:04:24 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15219.9480.32420.328690@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:04:24 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why anti-trust law? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010809171930.046e27a0@localhost> References: <20010809150404.C92172@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010809171930.046e27a0@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass types: > At 03:24 PM 8/9/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > >I wouldn't, because I think they are generally a bad idea. I've as yet > >to hear of an example where a corporate monopoly was broken up and the > >public benefited. > Four characters: AT&T. It's just a shame that they didn't break it up > the right way, separating infrastructure from service. As I mentioned further on, I believe that breakup was a good thing. That's why I added the "corporate" - I was looking for a way to describe monopolies that were the result of capatalists working the market rather than the government playing with the market. If you want to argue that I made a poor choice of words - well, I'll agree with that as well. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message