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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dump the crappy hardware!!! (was: Haynie joins AT team)
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 21:57:37 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4j71c1$2jq@serpens.rhein.de>
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- jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) writes:
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- >Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
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- >: Because you cannot make money with selling an operating system.
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- >This is fascinating news for those people who thought Microsoft was a
- >multi-billion dollar company.
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- Do you think Microsoft would make money by selling an operating system ?
- Don't you think that they make money by binding close to all clone
- manufacturers to exclusively buy their product ? Or with their other
- programs that benefit from OS features that aren't available to the
- competition ? Or by buying and licensing out huge datasets ? And all
- this because they got half of the market for free in the beginning ?
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- Michael van Elst
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- Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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