Professor C Economics 1B 3/31/04 Article #2 Source: Capitalism Magazine The Prosecution of Microsoft The articles I have chosen to write about are: Persecution of Microsoft is Immoral, by Richard Salsman and Microsoft and the Mythology of Anti-trust, by Tom Sowell. I will be talking about perfect competition and other related issues. In the sixth edition book by Slavin, it talks about perfect competition in chapter twenty-two pages 595-608. On May 18, 1998, the U.S. Justice Department formally …showed first 75 words of 731 total…

…showed last 75 words of 731 total…virtues that lead to increased market share in a free market. The antitrust laws used to attack Microsoft serve as a vehicle for envious competitors. Any society that regards Microsoft--a creative, productive and beneficent enterprise--as its enemy, is a society that is morally sick and headed for hell. People need protection from coercive and omnipotent governments, not from the beneficial products that Microsoft and other companies provide via freedom of competition in a free market.