Re: Government competition

[stan johnson <sjohnson@gwi.net>]

** Reply to note from brett@lariat.org Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:54:05 -0500 
 The best anti-cherry-pickiing scheme is, again, direct subsidies 
 (perhaps in the form of chits that can be used exclusively for that 
 type of service). Users in less desirable areas will be able to afford 
 higher prices, so their areas would become more desirable.  
 
There are probably as many different schemes to accomplish the end   
of maintaining service in less-populous areas as there are posters to   
the topic. What is important, IMO, is that many (though not all) agree   
that this is one example illustrating the fact that there are social   
activities in which the law of the jungle is inappropriate. The rest,   
though important, is details. [In which resides the devil, as someone   
will say if I don't] 
 
Surely this has relevance to the M$/DOJ/JAVA/DR-DOS wrangling,   
but how to apply the lesson I'll leave to the gentle reader.

slj
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