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Microsoft

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Microsoft

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I feel this example shows supply and demand in addition to monopolistic
competition. This entire ordeal is over a free browser that Microsoft includes
with windows for free and gives out on the Internet for free just as Netscape
and most other browser companies do.

The government feels that Microsoft is creating a demand purely for their
products by forcing its browser on suppliers and controlling prices. I have yet
to see where Microsoft is charging extraordinary prices for any of these free
programs nor do I see how Netscape, in using the governments definition, a
"monopoly" itself, is "being forced out of business" by
Microsoft’s free browser.

Remember: the charge is against including Internet Explorer with Windows, not
the Windows monopoly itself. It is much better to have one operating system than
20 or even two. Software compatibility, technical support, and setup are much
more simplified with one operating system. Programs today are specifically
designed to be "Windows compatible." Would you rather have 20 (local)
phone companies, each with a different line and number running into your house
or one, as is the case now?

Internet Explorer brings browser competition to a market that is essentially
monopolistic itself. Internet Explorer gives Netscape a competitive product
where before virtually none existed. The purpose of antitrust laws is to prevent
only harmful monopoly. Microsoft’s operating system near monopoly is harmful
in very few ways. Nor is Intel's chip near monopoly harmful, nor is Netscape’s
browser near monopoly.

Other reasons easily explain how Microsoft came about to its size and how new
companies constantly spring up in the computer industry. Computer software is a
very volatile industry. To succeed in this industry all you basically need is a
good program and a way to offer it for sale. All they have to do is make a
program and copy it on a disk. Since making an extra disk containing the program
costs all of 2 cents, it is more costly for the software company to print the
box and manuals, than it is to make one extra disk. But it does cost Microsoft
to develop a new program. No matter how cheap a disk is, capital investment such
as salaries, factories, storage, and programmers always exist.

Even though development costs are sunk and additional production costs are
nonexistent, other costs are incurred. Besides, supply and demand determines
where a price...

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