[12184] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FUD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Mon Sep 8 18:45:26 1997
From: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>
To: sanjay@professionals.com (Sanjay Dani)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:14:03 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199709081845.LAA11283@osprey.professionals.com> from "Sanjay Dani" at Sep 8, 97 11:45:47 am
Nanog Folk,
(my apologies for the earlier blank mail)
Sanjay,
> >services to AOL. The big get bigger.
>
> Couldn't help noting that UUnet will run modems and routers
> for AOL+Compuserve and it continues to do so for their biggest
> competitor MSN (at least the last time I checked). Antitrust?
I can't help but respond to this ridiculous suggestion.
Please look up the definition of Antitrust before you go
rumor-mongering without facts.
The principle of antitrust is controlling a large enough segment
of the market to minimize competition. Approaching a monopoly.
AOL+Compuserve will continue to use multiple vendors for their
customers' access. Microsoft is free to choose anyone they want.
An allegation that this action is anticompetitive is simply not
well thought out.
-alan
