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

Alberto Moreira wrote:

> Said  "Robert N. Newshutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
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> > Then I don't think gouging should be used as an excuse to regulate M$.
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> 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. 

Interesting, lots of value for low price makes it hard on the 
competition.

And you want to punish this company, because they might do the 
opposite of what they are doing?