Das System Bill Gates
Der reibungslose Kapitalist
Rollen, Rollen, Rollen
Der Markt entscheidet, und bisher kann sich unsere Erfolgsbilanz
sehen lassen. Wenn Sie das Macht nennen -- bitte. Interview mit dem Spiegel (8/98) Like monopolists of a century ago, Microsoft has observed that
if you can capture enough market share, three large benefits accrue.
First, you can scare off, drive out, or gobble up competitors.
This conveniently gives you even more market share. Second, your
monopoly in one key area of the business (in this case the ubiquitous
Windows operating system) facilitates market power in other key
product lines, such as word processing and Internet access. And
third, of course, comes the reward: With market power, you can
jack up prices that captive consumers must pay. Somehow, this
cyber-platform, on which the entire Internet free market rests,
is not quite self-correcting after all... Cyberspace may indeed
offer the potential of untold consumer choice--if nobody gains
a stranglehold. Markets are sublime institutions, but they require
a referee. Once again, the search for a perfect self-regulating
market has proven to be a fool's quest." Robert Kuttner in einem Kommentar in der Business Week vom 19.1.1998
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