Back up your facts
with citations.
The [link|http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/bowenj/antitrust/stdoilnj.htm|vast] [link|http://europe.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9805/18/monopoly/|majority] [link|http://beginnersinvest.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bilderberg.org%2Fwhatafel.htm|of] [link|http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/MAIN.HTM|sources] give Standard Oil a 90% market share.
Rockefeller played the railroads the same way MS played the PC makers.
The rest of your post is also garbage. The price of kerosene was falling because everybody was switching to gasoline to fuel the new automobiles. None of this mattered to JDR, he controlled the refineries and the shipping - crude still had to be shipped and refined - whether you crack it to kerosene or gasoline makes no difference.
Do you get it yet? Did you know MS is busy sweet-talking the RIAA with promises that if all CDs going forward ship in only MS Media Player format that their file sharing troubles will be over? And who will decide who gets MSMP code and for how much? Hmmmmm.
>What do you call Sun, IBM, AOL, Oracle, Apple, etc.?
Uh, which of these other companies are direct competitors to MS in desktop operating systems for PCs? I've seen this red herring before save it. The court didn't find them credible competition either. Thus, MS *is* a monopolist and *is* guilty of leveraging their monopoly position to try to create additional monopolies.
Oh yeah, their position makes it impossible to get funding to start a competing venture because everybody assumes that competing with MS is *not* possible because of their OS leverage and mafia-like sales tactics.
I have experienced this first hand several times and had a company I work for put out of business because MS released a free version of our product bundled with the OS after inviting us to spend significant $ porting to their new Windows platform and promising not to do such a thing.
Yeah, I'd like to see their campus bombed with effective legal remedies, lying sacks of Squidley.
-Ed note- in light of the increase scrutiny from our beloved Big Brother and the heightened security levels presently being enjoyed by our citizenry coupled with the use of my real name for a handle I added a more accurate descripting of just what sort of bombing would be desired and in now way do I now, nor have I in the past advocated actions which may result in the sudden and violent loss of property and/or life.
