[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Stafford Winters]

On 12/8/2011 11:50 AM, ChrisQ wrote:
>
> I thinkk there's a good arguement for *all* essential services to be 
> in public hands, to
> ensure that consumers get a fair deal. It stops the sort of rip off we 
> have in the uk,
> where water, sewerage, gas and electricity users are at the mercy of 
> large multinationals,
> whose only responsibility is to their shareholders and can never be 
> trusted to do the
> right thing.

Services that are to be delivered through limited means of distribution 
are certainly good candidates for an organization that will not exploit 
the monopoly the possess.  Many other services are best left to private, 
competitive enterprise, such as garbage collection.  Unfortunately, the 
area in which I live has gone to service areas, awarded by government 
exclusively to the company they currently prefer.  This amounts to 
government sanctioned monopolies.