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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.215347.1614@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 21:53:47 GMT
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- In article <BzKsJ2.Bwp@csulb.edu>, sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- |> Now, now, try and calm down a little bit. I doubt that anything that
- |> the FTC is contemplating will 'destroy' Microsoft.
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- One of the options that the FTC is considering is breaking Microsoft up into
- several companies. That's "destruction" in my book.
-
- |> AT best, it will
- |> just require them to try an play an little fair(er) with the other children.
-
- I _still_ don't understand what isn't "fair" about what Microsoft is doing.
- Why shouldn't Microsoft let its application programmers talk to its OS
- programmers? What is wrong with giving their own programmers an edge?
-
- |> >How Bill Gates runs his business is nobody's business but Bill Gates's.
- |>
- |> Sorry to disappoint you, but this issue was settle quite a long time
- |> ago when the robber barons ran roughshod over the economy and used
- |> market power in anti-ethical, non-competitive ways.
-
- I was wondering when someone was going to trot out a "robber baron" strawman.
- Stick to the issue at hand.
-