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To: William who wrote (23020)2/23/1999 3:50:00 AM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 77397
 
Dominate the market does not always mean law suit.

Yeah, that's true, William. But Kodak did not have any competitors screaming to their Congressmen about them. The "Alcoa" case is the best example of the insanity of the anti-trust laws.

I don't argue monopoly with people. I have found it is useless. You cannot convince them that a natural monopoly is moral. It is easier to convince people that you don't need a political system to have Society run correctly, (the hard Libertarian position), than it is to convince them that there is nothing wrong with a natural monopoly, in contrast to a state, politically run, monopoly.



To: William who wrote (23020)2/23/1999 10:42:00 AM
From: Doughboy  Respond to of 77397
 
Actually, DOJ sued Kodak many times over many years--and won. Kodak operated under a crippling consent decree for at least three or four decades. As I recall, the consent decree said that Kodak could not own its own retail outlets because of fears that they would force the franchises to buy Kodak photographic supplies if they wanted to sell Kodak film. A classic tying arrangement.

Doughboy.



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