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Ivo Cerckel
 Sep 27, 07 - 10:08 PM |
Common sense and Microsoft
ALAN GREENSPAN vs. NEELIE KROES COMMOM SENSE vs. the PRINCIPLE OF IN-DISTINCTNESS Re: Aristotle and Metaphor of Owl http://pub13.bravenet.com/forum/1108592048/show/724654 SNIP Metaphysics, II (Alpha the Lesser), 1, 993b10: For just as bats’ eyes are towards daylight, so in our soul is the mind towards those things that are clearest of all. (Penguin Books translation by Hugh Lawson-Tancred) For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. (W.D. Ross translation) Here’s the reference which disclosed to me to the place in the Metaphysics: http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:a971tCDqtz8J:www.fordham.edu/gsas/phil/klima/Blackwell-proofs/MP_C03.pdf+aristotle+metaphysics+owl+light&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4 It translates, in the text to which footnote 18 refers, as follows: Our intelligence is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Why Microsoft Was Wrong Wall Street Journal - 26 Sep 2007 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119075444035939067.html?mod=googlenews_wsj requires subscription But this would be the source article (look at the URL – moreover this article starts with the part of the Journal article which does not require subscription) ARTICLE Neelie Kroes European Commissioner for Competition Policy Antitrust in the EU and the US– our common objectives Brussels, 26th September 2007 http://tech.propeller.com/story/2007/09/27/kroes-why-microsoft-was-wrong-pdf http://digg.com/microsoft/Kroes_Why_Microsoft_Was_Wrong_PDF SNIP In reality businesses do engage in strategic behaviour to undermine their rivals. Where a well-established monopolist exploits its position to colonise neighbouring markets, this can scare investors from funding competitors, undermine the incentive and ability of those competitors to invest and innovate, and drive out competitors who are as efficient as the monopolist. And monopolists exploiting their strategic position to conquer new markets are less likely to innovate than companies forced to compete for customers on the basis of the merits of their products. TO MOST PEOPLE, THIS IS JUST COMMON SENSE: a straightforward description of the real world of business. There cannot be many business people who doubt that a monopolist can use its market power to squash even the most efficient rival producers of goods or services that interact with the monopolised product. There cannot be many venture capitalists who would invest in a company whose market can at any moment fall under the sway of an entrenched neighbouring monopolist whose behaviour was subject to no limits. As Alan Greenspan said in 1962, competition regulation is harmful and “ is reminiscent of Alice's Wonderland: EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS, YET APPARENTLY ISN'T, simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding principle, yet 'too much' competition is condemned as 'cutthroat.' It is a world in which actions designed to limit competition are branded as criminal when taken by businessmen, yet praised as ‘enlightened’ when initiated by the government. It is a world in which the LAW IS SO VAGUE that businessmen have NO WAY OF KNOWING whether specific actions will be declared illegal until they hear the judge's verdict -- after the fact.” http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/06-12-98.html Does Wonderland correspond to common sense? What things are by nature the most evident of all? |
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