No monopoly has ever happened except by regulation
At 08:34 AM 10/4/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Microsoft got to where it is because of a lack of regulation,
Microsoft is not a monopoly. In servers, where much of their income comes from, Linux is eating their lunch, and the desktop is under continual threat. For a monopoly to be a monopoly, you not only have to have most of the market, you have to have some means of excluding others, which Microsoft manifestly does not.
the abuses of the aircraft industry in the 1940-50's that led to regulation at the end of the 50's and 60's. The steel industry in the north east in the early 1900's. The food packing and garment industries of the north east and pacific coast in the 20's through the 50's. The railroad industry in the mid-1800's.
You are totally deluded. None of these are examples of monopoly, except for the railroad industry where government intervention was for the purpose of creating monopoly, not preventing it. The garment and food packing industries were and are a huge network of innumerable tiny shops, and the aircraft industry had several big companies in fierce competition. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG tGwDPXVCokaVVyVk0h0Eg2GWnP+PvoDN/FVnNlrj 4rpwXX94bGxwVRYaTkgfjolUcS6JYdmdeC7V3gPK3 ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald