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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!ray
- From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:49:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.204958.11455@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Dec20.001410.22069@qucis.queensu.ca> <64530001@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>
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- In <64530001@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM) writes:
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- ><lowell@locus.com> writes:
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- >| >which go on are completely voluntary between buyer and seller. Obviously
- >| >both parties are happy about the price or it wouldn't get sold. If
- >| >Microsoft and its customers are happy, why interfere with them?
- >| >
- >| Effectively Yes. The senario is this, I have a PC (It was given to me
- >| by a well meaning relitive, it is loaded with DR-DOS 6.0), I need to run
- >| The most wonderful word processor in the world (Word Perfect 5.2, or
- >| some other non-MS windows based word processor), I go out an buy Windows
- >| 3.1 (I am not stupid so I get it for $79 at Egghead on sale) and this
- >| Wonderful Word Processor. All of asudden I find out that Windows 3.1 won't
- >| run under my version of DR-DOS, so I go back to Egghead and am forced to pay
- >| full price (minus the egghead discount) for DOS. I ain't happy with
- >| Microsoft.
-
- >Yes. And I guess I should sue Microsoft for making Windows 3.1 that
- >cannot run on my old CPM86 that I bought in 1980s....
-
- >| rampant. People are not happy with MS, they only buy MS-DOS because it is
- >| effectively the only game in town, and you gotta play and pay through the
- >| nose for the priviledge.
-
- >You do have a point there about being the only game in town. Because
- >all the other players shot themselves in the foot.
-
- NO-NO-NO It is not that they (the competitors) shot themselves in the foot.
- Microsoft shot them. That is why the FTC is getting into the act!
-
- They Cheat! they are bullies. That is the whole point.
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