From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 15 16:43:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB751563B for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:43:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:43:30 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Brett Glass" , "Jonathon McKitrick" Cc: Subject: RE: Video Stupidity Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:43:30 -0800 Message-ID: <000101bf475e$92e396f0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991215173848.00ca4ba0@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > At 05:23 PM 12/15/1999 , David Schwartz wrote: > > > > > >Wouldn't that just encourage other companies to sell _cheaper_? > > > > > > Nope; it's like airline pricing. When the leader goes up, the others > > > generally follow. > > > > Yes, but the others don't set their pricing quite as > high as the leader > >does. > > Not true -- particularly not in the airline business. I guess I must have imagined those fare wars then. In any event, this is not a very good example because there are tremendous (and unique) barriers to entry in the airline business. For example, foreign airlines are still effectively prohibited from competing on domestic routes. > But then, you have displayed in previous messages your lack of knowledge > of economics. Ah, your famous ad hominem. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message