Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:54:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> To: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108271945420.329-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber> In-Reply-To: <0108270947300X.03063@mercedes.local.domain>
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> > antitrust laws were written. Any economic prof will tell you that in a > > purely capitalistic system, that ultimately all global markets will Lets dedicate this to the norwegians.. > > collapse into monopolies. A system of monopolies is the normal end result > > state of a pure free market. > > The only answer to fix this is, of course, government. Only governments But the question is less how big a company is, there will allways be monopolies of some sort, somebody does it best, but how much they are protected by the law, a certain jurisdiction. And be forced to stop unfair practices. If Microsoft wants to replace the internet as they were ignoring MIME. Take this as an example: http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/bla.bat saying "rem del c:\*.*" Poodles in Microwave ovens and this. H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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