[Am-info] Re: watchingmicrosoftlikeahawk.com

[Steve Cohen]

Cato's been around for a long time.  It comes
basically out of the same intellectual roots as the
Libertarian party: everything government does is
wrong, everything should be in the hands of the
private sector which is by definition better than the
government.  Pretty silly stuff, IMHO.

Antitrust enforcement, according to this view, then,
is in and of itself an illegitimate intrusion upon the
prerogatives of the private sector.  The Cato
Institute has been spreading this stuff since long
before Microsoft was an issue.

This position is an ideologically consistent one for
Cato. They really believe this stuff.  I don't think
they're a paid attack dog, although corporations
including Microsoft who stand to benefit from such
policies are more than happy to donate to them.  

--- John Poltorak <jp@eyup.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:22:42AM -0600, Glenn T.
> Livezey, Ph.D. wrote:
> > Maybe you guys have seen this one but its new to
> me. Resource value?
> >
> >
>
http://www.watchingmicrosoftlikeahawk.com/USvsMS.shtml
> 
> Interesting list - I've even bookmarked it!
> 
> However it does have a huge ommission by overlooking
> TheREG...
> 
> One interesting link was to Cato Policy Analysis
> were I read the biggest
> load of hogwash I've seen in a long time - it could
> even have been written
> by Bill Gates himself. Basically it dismisses the
> whole Anti-Trust trial
> as though there was no case to answer.
> 
> The US seems to breed a lot of idiots like this
> Robert A. Levy from the
> Cato Institute...
> 
> Does anyone know anything about the Cato Institute?
> How is it funded?
> Handouts from the Gates Foundation?
> 
> > Glenn
> > --
> > Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D.
> 
> --
> John
> 
> 
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