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

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Robert N. Newshutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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<Alberto Moreira wrote:
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<> 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. 
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<Interesting, lots of value for low price makes it hard on the 
<competition.


If I produce vormzoligs that are as good or better than yours,
and I sell them as cheaply, or cheaper, then that's good.


If I have six hundred thousand vormzoligs in stock, and you
have fifty, and I give mine away until you are forced
out of business, that may not be good.  



-- cary