From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:37:48 +0800
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: everybody wants a piece of Microsoft's monopoly
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In <3.0.2.32.19971021102457.035d2f8c@panix.com>, on 10/21/97 
   at 10, Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> 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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