Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:04:24 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why anti-trust law? Message-ID: <15219.9480.32420.328690@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010809171930.046e27a0@localhost> References: <20010809150404.C92172@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010809171930.046e27a0@localhost>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> types: > At 03:24 PM 8/9/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > >I wouldn't, because I think they are generally a bad idea. I've as yet > >to hear of an example where a corporate monopoly was broken up and the > >public benefited. > Four characters: AT&T. It's just a shame that they didn't break it up > the right way, separating infrastructure from service. As I mentioned further on, I believe that breakup was a good thing. That's why I added the "corporate" - I was looking for a way to describe monopolies that were the result of capatalists working the market rather than the government playing with the market. If you want to argue that I made a poor choice of words - well, I'll agree with that as well. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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