[Am-info] 'Big Guns' Weigh In On Microsoft Case

[Hans Reiser]

Mitch Stone wrote:

>
>How can anyone in sound mind, and with a straight face, characterize 
>competition as the problem and not the solution? I've been puzzling over 
>this one for years. It's tempting, but too easy, to chalk up these 
>comments as the scripted remarks of paid Microsoft shills. These 
>otherwise intelligent people must somehow have come to believe that 
>competitive markets are not relevant in this instance -- that a 
>proprietary commercial product can be called a "standard" without it also 
>being called a monopoly.
>
> Mitch Stone  
> mitch@accidentalexpert.com
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Most people are herd animals.  Most herd animals want to follow.  Being 
dominated is comfortable.  They probably mean it.  Antitrust law, and 
all the other ideologies of freedom, have always had this problem.

Hans