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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chic_hearne who wrote (102285)	4/5/2000 2:54:00 PM
From: zwolff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576882

"After final decisions were made to throw out the IBM lawsuit and then finally break up AT&T, actions that had started 10 years earlier, trust-busting was moved to the bottom of the economic priority list. Free enterprise prospered." There is no question that the break up of AT&T was great for competition and..for AT&T. Also curving IBM was great for MSFT. MSFT is too big for its own good. Give an example of an industry were a company has the power to do the following: every time it releases a new product (say Windows 98) it is able increase the price of the older version of the same product (say Windows 95)?!! At the same time that it has the right to fix the price of the upgrade from the old product to the new one.. AMD would love that kind of deal..Now is that competition?