Alan C. Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 Thomas Penfield Jackson, Outspoken Judge, Dies at 76 ...a federal judge who ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a predatory monopoly and must be split in half, only to see an appeals court reverse his order because he had improperly discussed it with journalists... I posted this, not because I'm particularly interested in this judge, but because I remember Tom DiLorenzo's excellent article from 2000. Anti-trust, Anti-truth by Thomas DiLorenzo
Robert Stempien Posted June 18, 2013 Posted June 18, 2013 Thomas Penfield Jackson, Outspoken Judge, Dies at 76 ...a federal judge who ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a predatory monopoly and must be split in half, only to see an appeals court reverse his order because he had improperly discussed it with journalists... I posted this, not because I'm particularly interested in this judge, but because I remember Tom DiLorenzo's excellent article from 2000. Anti-trust, Anti-truth by Thomas DiLorenzo I liked the article, this is another good one by DIlorenzo, about the difference between political entrepenuers and market entrepenuers, political ones were the actual "Robber barons" in this time period that lobbied the state for regulations to lower the competition and market entrepenuers were and are people like Rockefeller that simply created a much better business. I personally think that BIll Gates is a political entrepenuer, not a market one, because of the monopoly grants he has receaved from the state in the form of the nonfree copyright licenses always used on windows, even as far back as Altair BASIC when BIll Gates saw everyone sharing copies of it without buying licenses of it instead of coming up with a different way to make money off of his software like a good market entrepenuer he bitched and moaned until the state asserted his monopoly. The propriatary software model that microsoft makes its money off of can only survive like it has when the state subsidizes it through copyright.
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