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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (13599)	12/18/1997 6:09:00 PM
From: derek cao	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

Darrell, who gets to decide where companies can make money?(in this case, it is just EU and Japan, right?) Should we slap the anti-dump law against intel because all their competitors are losing money? Man, I got tip my hat to MU. All they are saying is not to bail out the South Korea companies which I agree 100%. they just want to beat those south korea memory companies FAIR AND SQUARE. derek

To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (13599)	12/18/1997 7:57:00 PM
From: ratan lal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Darrel << if you have to "fix" the price of dram through an agreement of understanding to where companies can make money producing it, where's the wrong? >> ANTITRUST, COLLUSION. If it starts here where will it end?? ratan

To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (13599)	12/18/1997 8:20:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 70976

Darrell - <<if you have to "fix" the price of dram through an agreement of understanding to where companies can make money producing it, where's the wrong?>> OK - then how do you decide who gets to sell how many. After all, if the price is fixed artificially high, then they aren't going to sell as many, so their will be vacant plants. Whose? Should it be in proportion? Why should Micron suffer, when it was the Koreans who stuffed the channel by spending without thought? OR - If you fix the price, what is the incentive to make it newer, better, faster. This is the primary problem with communism. There is no incentive. Or, for another example of how stagnating price fixing is, look at the innovation that has occurred in telephony since AT&T lost their price regulated monopoly. And AT&T has actually grown much faster than it probably otherwise would have. Price fixing is never a solution except possibly for finite commodities which don't spoil (diamonds, and oil are the two best examples). Clark