On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> UB>> History of economics is tha basis for it. Monopolies can be
> UB>> either set up intentionally as monopolies, and we have many
> UB>> examples in Israel, but then they are also legally more
> UB>> restricted than non-monopolies, or they can arise on their own,
> UB>> and the latter happens quite often in unregulated or weakly
> UB>> regulated economic environments.
>
> So basically you say 'if the environment is heavily regulated, there can
> be monopolies, and if it is not, there can be monopolies too'. Great. So
> what? How that's related to free market or anything, so that you declare
> it 'inevitable consequency'?
It's not even close to what I was saying!
'inevitable' - always worked out this way so far, I'm extrapolating.
I was drawing a distinction between two kinds of monopolies. Monopolies
that arise in weakly regulated environments (free market being an example
of such an environment) are very rarely restricted. The anti-trust
trials are restriction after the fact.
While there are many aspects of the software industry which are affecte
dnot by just the extent of market regulation, as you pointed out, how is
the MS monopoly not a consequence of a free market?
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