RE: Offtopic, inappropriate jokes?

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

I dont see how any kind of legislative stupidity caused either the AT&T or
the Microsoft monopoly, please explain that?  or were you being sarcastic?

High barriers to entry can come in many forms.  For the
Linux-as-a-competitor-to-Windows thing, the main barriers as I see it are:

1)  device drivers with closed-source APIs and a lack of people to properly
implement the ones that have been opened
2)  3rd party application support

in other words, to make a competing product to Windows, you have to convince
a whole hell of a lot of 3rd parties to cooperate with you...

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Cozens [mailto:simon@example.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 11:10 AM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Re: Offtopic, inappropriate jokes?


On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:44:19PM +0900, Frank BENNETT (フランク　ベネット
) wrote:
> Normally, yes.  That's why I hypothesized a law against entry or the
> systematic kneecapping of competitors in my silly example: there have to
be
> high barriers to entry for monopolistic profiteering to work.

Right! So the only time anti-monopoly laws should come into play are
when legislators have done something stupid. So it *is* to protect
against legislation. Putting it another way, anti-monopoly laws reflect
the legislature's inability to keep tabs on itself.

-- 
<fimmtiu> Sucks really Forth. Ugh.

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