- From: ashok malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:20:25 -0400
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, Marc Fawzi <marc.fawzi@gmail.com>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
- CC: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
> but "Monopoly" to me means the market is dominated by 2-3 players That's, technically, oligopoly On 7/28/2014 6:24 PM, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > > On 7/28/2014 3:28 PM, Marc Fawzi wrote: > >> but "Monopoly" to me means the market is dominated by 2-3 players > > Uh, no.... without trying to be too formal about it, monopoly is about dominance by one "player". See, for example, the 6th definition from [1] which says: > > 6. the market condition that exists when there is only >one< seller. > > No need to pursue this in detail here, but the prefix "mono" is there for a reason. > > Noah > > [1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/monopoly?s=t >
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