千禧之年伊始,美国就爆出了一则惊人消息:世界上最大的互联网服务公司——美国在线公司和世界上最大的传媒公司——时代华纳宣布合并。合并后的美国在线——时代华纳将成为融媒体、娱乐和通讯为一体的世界巨头,公司市值为3500亿美元,年销售额为300亿美元。与此同时,美国又传来了另一则重大新闻:因为反垄断诉讼,美国计算机软件巨头——微软公司可能被一分为三。于是许多人认为,这是美国司法部在故意制造悖论:一方面要肢解微软垄断帝国,另一方面又在制造新的垄断。这真是一个悖论吗? From the beginning of the millennium, the United States broke the shocking news that the merger was announced by Time Warner, the world’s largest Internet services company, AOL and the world’s largest media company. The combined AOL, Time Warner, will become the world’s largest financial, entertainment and communications company with a market capitalization of 350 billion U.S. dollars and annual sales of 30 billion U.S. dollars. In the meantime, another big news came from the United States: the U.S. computer software giant Microsoft may be divided into three because of the antitrust lawsuit. So many people think that this is the United States Department of Justice deliberately create a paradox: on the one hand to dismember Microsoft’s monopoly of the empire, on the other hand to create a new monopoly. Is this a paradox?