Very true brett.
The most recent example that I can think of that violated this
position were the gas stations. They would get together and figure
out how much they would charge...this was few years ago, when I was
but a wee little tadpole and computers were mostly big buildings<G>..
But if the allegations against MS stand true in this area, then they
have conspired to form a monoply. Of course, with MS denying they
ever did this, and other companies stating that they did..with no
collobrating evidence, it may be difficult for the government.
As to OS monoply, fortunately Linux has risen to the top of the
cream. MS may soon have to accept Linux as a viable choice to their
operating system and start supporting it, or be lost in the dust.
> Jack Killpatrick wrote:
>
> > Can anyone explain to me what "market allocation", as referred to above,
> > means?
>
> Communism. :0
>
> Basically, they each take a part of the market, and agree not to compete
> with each other in those markets. Each company gets all the income from
> its area, and can nicely balance budgets and manage costs without fear of
> competition.
>
> On the other hand, there's no competition, prices tend to get inflated,
> and you also end up with companies protecting each other (say, by dropping
> the price of products to limit competition entry into a market, with other
> 'colluders' marking up services to the new company on other fronts to make
> sure their costs go up while they're trying to drop product prices to
> compete).
>
> Also makes it easy for a company to maintain larger markets against
> competitors. When you have a guaranteed lock on a national market, for
> instance, it's really hard for a new person to start in any region of that
> nation . . . if you *know* you get all the income that year from that
> market, you just raise prices somewhere else and lower them where
> competition occurs, and no one can compete with you.
>
> Or, in the simplest terms, coordinated monopolies.
>
> Still standing by my advice to MS: break the company up now and save
> yourselves a billion in litigation. :)
>
> Brett
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