On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> UB>> Microsoft *is* playing by the rules of competitive capitalism.
> UB>> That's how it got to a big near-monopoly. The emergence of such
> UB>> monstrosities is an inevitable consequence of a free market
> UB>> economy.
>
> That's a pretty strange claim. I see no base of it. I agree that current
> state of software industry reveals a tendency for monopolisation - in
> part, due to lack of inter-vendor standarts culture from one side and
> desire for stadartized environments for the other side. But this has
> nothing to do with 'free market economy'.
History of economics is tha basis for it. Monopolies can be either set up
intentionally as monopolies, and we have many examples in Israel, but then
they are also legally more restricted than non-monopolies, or they can
arise on their own, and the latter happens quite often in unregulated or
weakly regulated economic environments.
Thanks,
Uri
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