[PRCo] Re: OT:___1936--1937___PCC

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Fred Schneider wrote:

> NCL was evil ... if you listen to the blabberings of Fred Schneider ...
> because they got too good for their britches.  Other people didn't like being
> put out of business by a top drawer competitor.  Kodak and Microsoft have had
> similar problems.
> Competition is the American way.  Penalizing a company for being too good is
> also the American way.

Aside from being hated, Wal-Mart isn't particularly penalized. Although
out of scope for NCL, the implications of monopoly are real. Why buy word
processing package X when it's either not Microsoft Word compatible, or
may not continue to be when new Word releases happen, when 90+% of the
world can deal with World.

> were not going to compete.  Here in Lancaster, CTC was loosing money by 1923,

loosing it on whom? ;-)