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Re: everybody wants a piece of Microsoft's monopoly
In <[email protected]>, on 10/21/97
at 10, Duncan Frissell <[email protected]> said:
>At 01:20 PM 10/21/97 +0200, Zooko Journeyman wrote:
>>
>>I mean, _sure_ Microsoft is an oppressive monopoly, but then
>>what the hell is the USG?
>>
>>
>>Zooko
>True enough. In addition, look at the business press in the last few
>days for stories on other "Monopolies" of the past. IBM is suing someone
>for dissing their stock value. AT&T can't figure out how to pick a new
>CEO or figure out what to do with their business once they get one. ITT
>arranged a friendly sale of its hotels to avoid a Hilton hostile
>takeower. Harold Geneen's "Conglomerate" (remember that word?) now
>consists of a company whose sole business is the publication of foreign
>telephone directories.
>Remember when economic experts said that AT&T, IBM, ITT, GM, etc. were
>too big and powerful to ever be defeated. That Capitalism was over.
This is just another shakedown. I would imagine that the Gore/2000 slush
fund is getting low or perhapse the Clinton Defence Fund.
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