Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:39:25 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: M$ anti-trust case Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000417153027.73617A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <000001bfa8a9$33133760$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, David Schwartz wrote: > > > Actually, anything MS does to make Windows worse, less competitive, or less > useful helps the consumer as it encourages other companies to develop > alternatives and superior products. Bullshit. That would be true if there a *competitive* market. If there excessive, artificial barriers to entering the market, you don't have proper competition. In that case, the clearly inferior product can dominate the market. > So long as nobody intervenes to force consumers to buy products they don't > want or props up products that the free market tried to squeeze out, > consumers will always win. The problem occurs when sore losers decide to > keep up a fight that the market doesn't want. Or they don't get into a fight that market would want, because they can't. Regards, David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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