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To: c.horn who started this subject	9/25/2001 6:46:58 PM
From: David Miller	Read Replies (1) of 35

I have seen some sub-moronic threads here, but this is special. It may seem smart to you to contrast a rapacious business monopoly with the US government (the characteristics of whom, I have to tell you, are identical to many in the free world), but it doesn't wash. Microsoft created its monopoly position through a series of carefully judged restrictive marketing practices in the late eighties/early nineties. Pro-MS folk regard this as a triumph of capitalism. The rest of the world remembers it differently, as a steady stream of innovative alternatives were systematically strangled at - or close to - birth. To these folk, it was precisely the antithesis of a free market, more closely resembling the statist, supply-side management of a totalitarian regime. This is best illustrated by the disingenuous mantra "don't like MS, buy Apple". When ninety percent of a market is owned by a single supplier, choice is by definition restricted. Supporting this monopoly with spurious casuistry is akin to supporting communism. You are in effect arguing that all decisions on what is best for the consumer are left to a single, unelected body.

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