An exercise in logic (Score 1)

(1) The proposition.

A company (Microsoft) has a monopoly if competitors do not exist.
A competitor exists { Apple,<insert Linux distro>, Unix, SCO ; ) , BSD }.
Therefore monopoly doesn’t exit.

Brought to you by modus tollens*

Note: According to cognitive psychologists, although nearly 100% of college students have a solid, intuitive understanding of modus ponens, < 60% can apply modus tollens correctly.***

Corollary: In modern industrialized countries the majority is with those citizens that have not been college educated constitutes approximately 65% of the workforce.

I have a thought experiment.
Suppose nearly a third of educated people are able to apply modus tollens.
In addition grant the uneducated classes this same value (however unlikely).

The outcome in (1) is thus: the majority of voters will evaluate it incorrectly, or are easily misled into thinking that they are correct. It follows that the governments that are elected by the people, unfettered by special interest groups, will not be able to evaluate (1) as well. In conclusion repressive policy will be generated ‘for equality’ at the expense of freedoms. This process will by induction flow from one level of economy to another, all the way to specific personal freedoms by the regulation of the economy of personality. Everyone is equal, competition is staged (Remember competition is a necessity for innovation, but equality must be at all times maintained), everything is protected from the citizen, even themselves.

Closing remarks:
It becomes evident that the adage that ‘democracy is the tyranny of the majority’ has some semblance of reality. Restated in more specific rhetoric, the previous maxim should read: ‘democracy is the tyranny of the incompetent by the deceitful.’ The only redeeming quality democracy has is that domestic revolutions are usually ended in a bloodless coup.

ps.
If the collective body of the EU can compete with Boeing via the creation of Airbus; why isn’t a composite to Microsoft formed? It’s not like alternate OS generation is impossible, Linus did it

*** (Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications, 3rd ed. By John R. Anderson,
New York: Freeman, 1990; pp 292-297)