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- From: mike-b@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Michael Bishop)
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:31:54 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <137620003@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- References: <1992Dec20.001410.22069@qucis.queensu.ca>
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- > The problem here isn't that the hardware vendors "typically don't want
- > to buy from anyone but Microsoft." It's that MicroSoft enters into
- > agreements which force the vendor to charge more to people who request
- > ^^^^^
- > competetors products than those products would normally cost.
-
- This is a very strange use of the word "force". Did Microsoft hold
- these companies at gunpoint and say: "Put our OS on every computer you
- sell, or else." These companies agreed by their own volition to enter
- into an agreement with Microsoft. The only "force" we are going to see
- in this whole affair is when the U.S. Government dismantles a damned
- successful company - that's what this is all about - the hatred of the
- successful by the envious.
-
- Michael Bishop
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- Internet: mike-b@fc.hp.com
- CompuServe: 71552,1341
-
- If Bill Gates is the Ellis Wyatt of the computer industry, then who
- is John Galt?
-