[ale] OT: if this won't make you want to puke....

[Jeff Hubbs]

Thank you, Jim.

NEXT!?



On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 18:39, Jim wrote:
> On Friday 17 January 2003 05:29 pm, Steven M. Jasmin wrote:
> > Thats why the call it a free market people...he deserves his money and has
> > earned it. If you dont like microsoft for being a huge company with
> > complete market share you might want to consider moving to Russia or some
> > other communist/socialist country. I mean seriously for all of the reasons
> > to be pissed of at microsoft the fact that they are millionaires is at the
> > very bottom of the list. They earned it and deserve to reap the beneifits
> > of their work. Hence they call it a free market economy and Bill Gates is
> > one of the few people who has truly achieved the fabled "American Dream"
> > that everyone loves to harp on.....
> 
> This free market economy stabilized and grew under the Sherman Antitrust Act, 
> the same law that was used to prosecute Microsoft not so long ago. And there 
> is nothing socialistic about it. It just recognizes that one company, if 
> allowed to run wild, can squash competition and prevent a truly free market 
> from flourishing. The law is over one hundred years old (before the Soviet 
> Union came into existence). If you really want to understand what makes free 
> markets and capitalism work, you should study that law and its history. You 
> should also understand that most businesses within the United States 
> willfully operate under the strictures of that law. Only Microsoft, in recent 
> years, has assumed that it has a right to be exempt. If you like the idea of 
> monopolies and corporate feudalism, then lobby Congress to repeal antitrust 
> laws. 
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