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To: Jorge
Well, how many "superior" products do you know that cannot compete in a free marketplace?

If the marketplace really were free, you would have a point. If you had been paying casual attention to the MS anti-trust trials, you would know that the marketplace is in no way free, but illegally controlled by Microsoft.

121 posted on 04/25/2002 8:20:50 PM PDT by be131
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To: be131
"Well, how many "superior" products do you know that cannot compete in a free marketplace?"

If the marketplace really were free, you would have a point. If you had been paying casual attention to the MS anti-trust trials, you would know that the marketplace is in no way free, but illegally controlled by Microsoft.

This is only if you accept the charges against Microsoft.
The idea that Microsoft might unfairly exploit the advantages it has in the marketplace..which it has in fact earned through it's own success seems to me to borderline on fair game in the arena of free market competition.
I disagree with your claim that "the marketplace is in no way free, but illegally controlled by Microsoft"...
Microsoft has not held a gun to anyone's head and forced them to buy their products....I and everybody else who has made Microsoft #1 have bought their products out of our own free choice.

123 posted on 04/25/2002 8:42:44 PM PDT by Jorge
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