Revisionist history says RCA, but in truth it was a Mormon farm boy named Farnsworth. His struggles presaged the battle between Bill Gates and Netscape. Presiding over the landmark microsoft antitrust case, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson made international headlines when he compared Microsoft's market power to the hegemony enjoyed by John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil a century ago. But perhaps another, less chronicled story actually serves as a better model for what is happening today and what may yet take place in the years to come. Way back during the birth of broadcasting, a largely forgotten but portentous battle raged between a lone inventor and the indomitable mogul at the helm of the first electronic media-age monopoly. The conflict differed sharply from the Rockefeller case, which involved the supply of a physical product—oil—as well as the system for piping and transporting this commodity. By contrast, the primary product in broadcasting was information, broadly defined. And the primary issue at hand wasn't pricing but innovation itself.
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机译：修正主义者的历史说RCA，但实际上这是一个叫法恩斯沃思的摩门教农场男孩。他的奋斗预示着比尔·盖茨和网景之间的斗争。主持具有里程碑意义的微软反托拉斯案时，托马斯·彭菲尔德·杰克逊（Thomas Penfield Jackson）法官将微软的市场力量与一个世纪前约翰·D·洛克菲勒（John D. Rockefeller）的标准石油所享有的霸权作了比较，成为国际头条新闻。但是，也许另一个不那么陈词滥调的故事实际上可以作为当今正在发生的事情以及未来几年可能发生的事情的一个更好的模型。在广播诞生之初，一个孤独的发明家和首位电子媒体时代的垄断者之间顽强的暴动之间就发生了一场很大程度上被遗忘但艰巨的战斗。冲突与洛克菲勒案有很大不同，洛克菲勒案涉及实物产品（石油）的供应，以及该商品的管道运输系统。相反，广播的主要产品是广泛定义的信息。而眼下的主要问题不是定价而是创新本身。
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