The Feds Want To Write Your Software
Jim Choate
ravage at ssz.com
Sat Aug 11 14:51:34 PDT 2001
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Steve Schear wrote:
> Issues
> When looking at antitrust it seems prudent to consider, to whatever degree
> possible, whether regulatory intervention achieves the intended goals or
> whether it merely substitutes one set of problems for another. Market
> dominance/penetration has been a major issue in antitrust. Reduction of
> consumer choice through stifling of innovation should be included with
> predatory pricing and other consumer impacts in consideration of antitrust.
> At a workshop presentation last spring I suggested a non-regulatory way to
> include reduction in choice effects. Under the proposed changes Congress
> would set market size and penetration limits for all markets (based on SIC
> or its newer offspring) exceeding some minimum size threshold (e.g., 0.1%
> GNP) and enabling competitors to sue in federal court for removal of
> trademarks and copyrights of the monopolist related to the industry in
> question. Since trademarks and copyrights are privileges and not rights
> they can, theoretically, be rescinded.
You consider Congress setting market penetration limits as
'non-regulatory'?
Somebody didn't eath their Wheaties this morning...
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