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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: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:37:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.173757.926@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Dec20.001410.22069@qucis.queensu.ca> <64530001@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> <1992Dec26.204958.11455@Celestial.COM> <1992Dec29.021003.4037@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In <1992Dec29.021003.4037@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec26.204958.11455@Celestial.COM>, ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones) writes:
- >|>
- >|> 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!
- >|>
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- >Stand by for some heavy-duty accusations....
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- >|> They Cheat!
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- >Hmmmnn....when I use the word "cheat" I mean either that you don't deliver
- >what you promised to or that you steal something from me. When has Microsoft
- >done either one?
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- When they use the power of thier legal department to overpower smaller
- companies and prevent them from competing with MS.
- >|> they are bullies. That is the whole point.
-
- >Hmmmnnn...when I use the word "bully" I mean someone who uses physical force
- >to try and get his/her way. When has Microsoft used physical force
- >to get their way?
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- See my previous post RE: "try that and we will sue you out of existance."
- If that is not being a "bully" I don't know what is.
-
- >The word "bully" can much more accuratly be applied to the FTC. They are
- >trying to use physical force to make Bill Gates, at the gunpoint of the
- >police, do what they want him to do.
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