Re: Price gouging is beneficial. Price gouging is great!

Said  "Robert N. Newshutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :

 
>Then I don't think gouging should be used as an excuse to regulate M$.

The issue with MS isn't gouging, it's monopoly and potentially
predatory practices to hold that monopoly and ward off potential
competition. It's a pity that ever since the sixties hit us we've been
running scared from just about every little bogeyman in the closet,
and as a consequence we have relaxed the enforcement of many of our
high principles and laws: and one of those is the antitrust law. Like
I said before, the issue with gouging is simple: in a free market
gouging is not possible because the customers can choose. But if the
market isn't free, because there's either a monopoly or an oligopoly,
gouging is easy enough. Yet, you see, MS doesn't gouge, they do
precisely the opposite: they wallop you with value and attach a huge
amount of freebies to software that they sell for peanuts, but in
doing so they raise the R&D ante so much that it's real hard for
anyone to compete in a commercial scale. 


Alberto.