oneminute.rationalmind.net — The great successes in business were achieved by companies that began small, and became large through innovation and lower prices. Antitrust did not make those successes happen. On the contrary, antitrust is poised like a guillotine at the throats of every businessman who has the foresight, perseverance and pluck to become successful.
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generalloyJun 9, 2007
I disagree. Let's look in the computing field.AT&T was under consent decree. They felt they had to license out UNIX to universities and companies to stay within the settlement, so they did for a low price, and people started creating Free Software with UNIX, innovating like never before and creating programs that still run a lot of banks today, and whose concepts are pervasive. In the early 1990s, when AT&T felt the the consent decree didn't forbid software, they hugely increased prices and launched a multi-year court case against the University and BSDi to scuttle them.So, that consent decree created the *BSDs, Minix, Xenix, etc----and Linux, in a roundabout way.Then IBM. They had to license an operating system for their Personal Computers. They chose to license MS-DOS, pay Microsoft royalties for each PC.That created Microsoft.Microsoft? Their consent decree is worthless, though the case was a slam dunk. A lot of innovation and lower prices are held back by them.