Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:52:28 -0300,
Christoph Simon <ciccio@kiosknet.com.br> wrote in message
<[🔎] 20030921155228.2ffa0a77.ciccio@kiosknet.com.br>:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:01:04 -0500
> John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
>
> > Christoph Simon writes:
> > > Living in a country where monopolies are ilegal...
> >
> > Which country might that be?
>
> I'm not a lawyer, so I can't offer you a legal definition of a
> monopoly, but ask Microsoft about their last big trial and that which
> still seem to be in process in the EU. Or wasn't that in the end about
> being a monopoly and taking unfair advantage of it? Here I've got a
> `provider' who provides nothing than privacy violating filters
> (causing absurd latencies) and tells me that he'll switch off my
> internet connection if I don't pay my monthly fee. It's like some
> protection fee to the mafia. Well, he's a contents provider, but I
> didn't ask for any of that Microsoft-only crap. Would you think that
> in the US a judge would accept the unilateral modification of a
> consumer's contract (Telefônica and Terra did this here), making you
> pay the double for less? Is there any company in the world which can
> do that without having the status of a monopoly?
..www.telenor.no ? It "only" has the copper... ;-)
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.
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