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Um, yeah, that's the point: free markets, not monopolized ones. The concept is "anti-trust" -- you know that subject you learned about in eighth-grade civics class? I'll take my chances with American democracy, not the Republic of Microsoft. (On a personal note, I don't like Mr. Gates' sleazy tactics and, in my impression, quiet, slippery, weasely, nerdy arrogance. Having seen his book, I am not at all impressed with his "vision" of the "future". Nor, by the way, do I like, or find appropriate, your "is it too rough for you" attempt to personalize this. I think it's petty and ill-mannered of you and betrays your frustration at not really being able to answer the argument. In eighth-grade English class we learned that this was an "ad-hominem attack". Oh well.) Returning to your defense of free markets, well, you set up a straw man when you suggest that I and the Justice Department are opposed to free markets. Quite the contrary. Mr. Gates is the stealthy enemy of free markets. Back to "anti-trust" -- read some history books. You've got it all backwards and inside out. It's not possible, is it, that your perspective is warped at all by your unwavering gaze, hour after hour, upon the lofty price of MSFT? |
