From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 27 11:23:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD3337B406 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p40.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.40]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA131616; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:23:08 +0200 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00339; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:54:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:54:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: Chris Browning Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers In-Reply-To: <0108270947300X.03063@mercedes.local.domain> 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 > > 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