At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote:
>Apple would no doubt fail if IBM and Motorola stopped making PPC
>chips. This doesn't mean the government has any constitutional or
>moral authority to force IBM and Motorola to stay in this business.
Which leads me to this question -- so why doesn't Bill just close up
shop? He's got fifty+ billion dollars -- he couldn't spend it all in
his lifetime if he tried. So why doesn't he just pull a John Galt and
say, "Fine. I hereby close down Microsoft. We're out of business. No
more monopoly. Have fun. I'm going to Disneyworld."
(Ditto most tobacco executives and many other people whom the
government likes to pick on. They've got all the moneyt anyone, even
ME, could ever want -- so why bother anymore?)
I'm assuming it's not that simple, that you can't just shut the doors
and throw away the key. Can anyone confirm this?
