Re: Real-life biz experience

[andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Only in the somewhat attenuated sense that any
antritrust violation is theft on a large scale. You
couldn't be charged with theft for an antitrust
violation. However, for some AT violations (price
fixing, not monopolization or tying), you can go to
jail. Michael Andreas, the heir of the ADM fortune,
did. But my point was that illegal is worse than
shady, not that it is theft. jks

--- "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wrote:
> > > In other
> > > cases, he used shady
> > > business practices (e.g., against Netscape) and
> used
> > > the power of big biz to
> > > make it bigger.
>
> JKS:
> > "Shady" is not the word. "Flat out illegal" is the
> > word. He, or MS, was found liable for antitrust
> > violations. If Judge Jackson hadn't screwed things
> up
> > by talking out of school, Microsoftw ould have
> been
> > broken up as part of the remedy.
>
> yeah, but was it theft as normally defined?
>
> FWIW, a lot of people who deal with autism think
> that Bill Gates may have a
> mild case of it, i.e., Asperger's Syndrome (though
> of course he hasn't been
> officially diagnosed, at least not publicly). This
> gives me a small bit of
> sympathy for him. It also explains why he was
> grossly arrogant and so
> socially inappropriate when testifying in court.
> (Dubya represents a case of
> someone who's grossly arrogant but socially
> appropriate.)
>
> ------------------------
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &
> http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>


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