UB>> 'inevitable' - always worked out this way so far, I'm extrapolating.
I.e., you claim that every market that is existing long enough and isn't heavily regulated is by now monopolized? Pretty weird conclusion. Rather contradicting my knowledge about the world surrounding myself. UB>> I was drawing a distinction between two kinds of monopolies. UB>> Monopolies that arise in weakly regulated environments (free UB>> market being an example of such an environment) are very rarely UB>> restricted. The anti-trust trials are restriction after the UB>> fact. If you mean by 'restriction' government regulation, by definition your phrase is true. You just said 'if they aren't regulated, they aren't regulated'. Yup. So? UB>> While there are many aspects of the software industry which are UB>> affecte dnot by just the extent of market regulation, as you UB>> pointed out, how is the MS monopoly not a consequence of a free UB>> market? How is Microsoft monopoly not a consuqence of me scratching my left toe on the morning January 13 year 1985? Because no one succeeded to build a cause-consequence link to it, maybe. Or maybe because there are a lot of free market areas which aren't monopolized. BTW, "Microsoft monopoly" is in fact no as 'monopoly' as people like to think. There are a lot of software classes where Microsoft isn't even close to monopoly. The regulation for all of them is exactly the same. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-50-624945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
