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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:23:28 -0800
From:      "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To:        "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        <crh@outpost.co.nz>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit"
Message-ID:  <001e01bf31f2$02c70fb0$021d85d1@youwant.to>
In-Reply-To: <199911181753.KAA15939@usr02.primenet.com>

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> > Is it possible for company to cause the adoption of lesser
> > technology purely by business/marketing tactics?
>
> Yes.  It required the ability to wield what is called "monopolistic
> power" in the marketplace.  If you can wield this power, you can
> subvert normal free-market pressures, and by subverting, ignore them.

	Then why is it that not one single clear example of this has ever been
found? This must be some extreme usage of the word "possible".

	DS



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