Dan,
Having fun on the Clinton thread? How's the godless, commie, pinko liberal holding up against the purveyors of "truth"? -VBG-
To the subject at hand...
Intel's got a different legal approach, though.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand the FTC's "case" against Intel. They are most certainly not a monopoly. Just another example of overzealous bureaucrats and government lawyers trying to put the hammer down on a successful company.
Understand the law, try to stay within it, at least technically, and leave your legal troubles to the lawyers.
Understand the law? Stay within it? How can anyone or any business stay within laws that were obviously crafted at the Mad Hatters tea party?
Most people don't really want to know about antitrust matters.
Unfortunately true. Being successful is good. Being overly successful is un-American. That's all most people care to know, at least until their portfolios take a hit.
Laugh at Ayn Rand if you like, but, IMO, she was right on in her views of the consequences of the heavy hand of government interfering in the marketplace. Today MSFT, INTC, CSCO, Visa and MasterCard. Tomorrow, who knows? As low as my opinion is of the regulators and their true motives, the so called free enterprise libertarians in Silicon Valley who support the government in this matter, as it suits their interests, are even lower. I can hardly wait to hear their squeals of protest when the day comes that some of them are hauled into court. Principles do matter.
Regards, JB |
