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- From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 20:21:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.202131.24166@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Dec26.204958.11455@Celestial.COM> <1992Dec29.021003.4037@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec31.173757.926@Celestial.COM> <1993Jan01.191757.10168@microsoft.com>
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- In <1993Jan01.191757.10168@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec31.173757.926@Celestial.COM> ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones) writes:
- >>In <1992Dec29.021003.4037@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >>
- >>>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!
- >>>|>
- >>
- >>>Stand by for some heavy-duty accusations....
- >>
- >>>|> They Cheat!
- >>
- >>>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?
- >>
- >>When they use the power of thier legal department to overpower smaller
- >>companies and prevent them from competing with MS.
-
- > Evidence, please. I've only seen Microsoft on the receiving
- >end of this kind of litigation.
-
-
- >>>|> 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?
- >>
- >>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.
-
- > I read your post, and it sounded like what you were doing was
- >of questionable legality. If your company was so secure in what
- >it was doing, why didn't it go to court?
-
- Phil, go look at the size of Building 8. Now go inside and count the number
- of lawyers in there. Microport had a total of 22 people in the entire
- company - no lawyers. The lawyer we contacted told us the legal costs to
- fight MS would be in the range of tens of millions of dollars. Our total
- capitalization was only 1.5 million. Now you tell me how we could fight a
- bully that big!
- (For those of you that do not live in Redmond, Building 8 use to be
- Corporate headquarters buildin, but now is used to house the legal staff.
- It is a vary large building.)
-
- > If Microsoft rightly sues another company for copyright violation
- >or theft of intellectual property, that doesn't make them a bully.
-
- I have no problem when they "rightly" sue, but they have the POWER to bury
- anyone that gets in the way.
-
- >It makes them willing to stand up to criminals.
-
- > -Phil
- >--
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Phil Lafornara 1 Microsoft Way
- >philipla@microsoft.com Redmond, WA 98052-6399
- >Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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