Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:54:32 +0100 From: "Stuart Duckworth" <ITServices@cableinet.co.uk> To: ML Duke <mlduke@concentric.net>, zwade@micro-mania.net, Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers Message-ID: <087f54552201b81PCOW025M@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10108271312310.304-100000@mlduke.concentric.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108271945420.329-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>
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ML Duke wrote: > > Nonsense. Monopolies can only exist in the presence of a collectivist > system of government that accepts bribes to pass laws that suppress > competition -- exactly the situation today. > > (And the "economic prof" knows precious little about > economics -- as he is "educated" under the control of > the monopolies of which you speak.) > I like a nice conspiracy theory, it makes the old paranoid juices flow ;-) Capitalism tends towards monopolies, democracy fights against them ... or so the theory goes. Someone correct me: in days of yore Unix in one or other of its forms had a virtual monopoly of web servers and now Microsoft is trying to undermine that monopoly. That's what TCP/IP is for, isn't it, to facilitate communicaton between different operating systems? Stuart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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