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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator

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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19749)5/31/1998 1:39:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
>>>Take the lobbying DOLLARS SPENT, not just the legal(?) donations made, and divide it by the annual revenues of the company.<<<

Why? To prove how easy it is for big companies to overwhelm small ones with tiny percentages of their total assets? Because that is what you would be proving. I also spend more of my income as a percentage on sales taxes than Bill Gates. So what?

On another note, somebody brought up the issue of whether MSFT is a 'natural monopoly'. I really don't see what natural has to do with it. It's natural to hunt food naked in the woods, too. And so...

One of the consistent early arguments against democracy was that is wasn't natural. Of course that is correct. The rule of law in democratic societies helps us overcome the baser elements of our human nature. In this case, antitrust law.

Chaz
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