From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 27 14: 1:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow025o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF9637B405 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ITServices@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from aliorhan ([62.30.68.145]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:52:45 +0100 From: "Stuart Duckworth" To: ML Duke , zwade@micro-mania.net, Chris Browning , Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:54:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers Reply-To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk References: In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <087f54552201b81PCOW025M@blueyonder.co.uk> 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 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