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Re:South Korea bans unremovable mobile bloatware by Ygg2 on Monday January 27, 2014 @03:24AM (#7129370)
I'd like to see some proof that they are better? I consider them on par with each other.

Mainly, because I don't see how Free Markets don't collapse into a Regulated Market by the will of major players? If you are in a relatively Free Market and you gain a monopoly it's wiser, in short term, to invest into instruments to prolong your monopoly, rather than research and development. In other words it is in interest of major monopolies to create regulations to stop competition.

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Re:South Korea bans unremovable mobile bloatware by nickff on Monday January 27, 2014 @03:57AM (#7129442)
You are correct that investing in attaining a government granted monopoly has a very high return on investment.[1]

This is exactly why many free-market advocates believe that the government should not be allowed to regulate at all, or at least without very strong evidence that the intervention is necessary and proper, as well as limited in time and scope. These people believe that regulators are subject to 'public choice' problems.[2]

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice

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