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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 08:10:39 -0600
To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Why anti-trust law?
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At 08:04 AM 8/9/2001, j mckitrick wrote:
  
>How would you argue to someone that we *need* anti-trust legislation, and
>that controlling monopoly power is not just punishing the successful?

You live in the UK, correct? I'd say that your experience with BT (whose
markets have nominally, but not really, been opened to competitin) would
serve as a good example.

--Brett


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