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billman@centcon.com (William Rini) wrote:

>company.  Is Ford evil, how about Proctor & Gamble?  Perhaps Mickey
>Mouse is really Satan.  

None have such complete control of the market.  Ford and P&G are not
monopolies in ANY stretch of the imagination.  

>And just in case you are interested in learning what you missed in
>Econ 101, there has never been a successful monopoly in the US that
>was not supported by the government (ala AT&T).  Even the oil
>companies and the rail roads could not fully dominate their markets,
>at best they captured 80% market share.  Where there are profits there

That all depends on what you call a market.  In some geographic areas,
I'm sure SO and the railroads had 100% of the business for hundreds of
miles around.

>will be competition.  We can argue for days about the positives and
>negatives of MS controlling such a large market share (for one thing
>the "PC Revolution" might never have happened without MS), but the
>fact remains that MS is only persuing a normal course of action for
>any company of it's size.  If that is evil, then you sir are not a
>capitalist, you are a socialist at best and probably a communist.

You're being silly here, but it's true that MS is doing what any
company would and should do - Bill is well liked by the stockholders,
I'm sure.