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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dump the crappy hardware!!! (was: Haynie joins AT team)
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- Date: 26 Mar 1996 16:20:36 GMT
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
-
- : 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 ?
-
- That's HOW they make money selling the OS. I didn't say it was easy, and
- nobody else can do it these days, but it IS possible, as Microsoft shows.
-
- : --
- : Michael van Elst
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- : Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- : "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
-
- --
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