At 12:53 PM +1000 6/6/98, franko wrote:
>At 20:19 4/06/98 -0400, Gordon Campbell wrote:
>>At 08:25 AM 03/06/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>>This is the Board that could never decide to sue Microsoft ....
>>>
>>>*** FTC staff recommends antitrust suit against Intel
>>
>>What a crock. What Intel has is nothing like a monopoly by any stretch of
>>the imagination. Look at the popularity of Cyrix and AMD processors. Jeez...
>
>Guess they've never heard of PowerPC either? They will, tho, with the
>resurgence of Apple.
as much as i love apple -- and the powerpc/g3 chip line -- it is not a
viable alternative to intel chips because you cannot currently run windows
apps on it "native" .. look at market share, gentlemen. and advertising
dollars -- now let's not get into the fact that the reason intel can
"brand" their chip via bulletin boards, tv commercials, radio spots and mag
ads is due to the excess monopoly rents they have pulled from the
marketplace -- and those very same ads further safeguard their monopoly by
increasing the barriers to entry of competitive products.
at the risk of repeating myself (and others) it is the actions of the
company that are being challenged ... and have already been successfully
challenged in court ... not the mere fact of their monopoly position.
and yes -- the government has been extraordinarily lax and inconsistent in
its application of monopoly laws ... due in no large part to case law and
congressional amendments that dilute the original law, which was pretty
damn straightforward and clear.
Kathy
(who is in her populist mood)
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