On 2007/12/14 09:42 (GMT-0500) Michael Horowitz apparently typed: > A monopoly is when government gives someone the ability to legally ban > competitors.
You've provided a rough definition of a legal monopoly. An entity convicted of the felony of monopolistic predation as M$ has been falls into the different and much more common traditional and illegal class of monopoly. -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************