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To: Richard Habib who wrote (143879)9/20/2001 6:17:07 PM
From: The Duke of URLĀ©  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Without a government sponsored monopoly the original phone system might...

I, unlike others I could name, am less inclined to opine on the happenings of 1870 than I am to bear witness to the happenings of 1996.



To: Richard Habib who wrote (143879)9/20/2001 7:28:49 PM
From: willcousa  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
I don't think you can prove that and I don't think it is so. Without government monopolies things get done as people are willing to pay for them. That seems about right to me.