From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 9 7:20:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3941837B405 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 07:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15Uqfl-000L0s-00; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:20:29 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f79EKSK92482; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:20:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:20:28 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why anti-trust law? Message-ID: <20010809152028.D92172@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010809150404.C92172@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010809080845.04582bd0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010809080845.04582bd0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:10:39AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:10:39AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: | At 08:04 AM 8/9/2001, j mckitrick wrote: | | >How would you argue to someone that we *need* anti-trust legislation, and | >that controlling monopoly power is not just punishing the successful? | | You live in the UK, correct? I'd say that your experience with BT (whose | markets have nominally, but not really, been opened to competitin) would | serve as a good example. Sorry, I'm a cyber-squatter. :-) Born and raised in USA. jm -- "Investigators have discovered the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was a frayed wire. The wire became frayed when it was struck by a missile." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message