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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:51:15 GMT
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- In article <BzLMIH.II3@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.215347.1614@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >>In article <BzKsJ2.Bwp@csulb.edu>, sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >>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?
- >
- > Because it gives them undue power over the software market as a whole
- >and acts detrimentally to the market for applications software in that
- >Microsoft leverages its unique and restricted access to information about
- >it's operating environments to gain an advantage in a separate market. Now
- >you may not see these as separate markets but that is for the FTC to decide.
-
- Why do you consider this unfair ? MS made a bussiness decision to
- write operating systems, and it turned out to be a successful one.
- And this decision was many times very risky. Even today MS may lose
- all its tremendous investment in Windows-NT because of OS/2.
- Other companies did not. Tough for them. MS could not have any advantage
- over other companies if people did not buy their software. And people
- did buy because that is what they needed, or at least believed they
- needed.
-
- If the other companies want to have advantage, let them write a
- better Operating System that people need, rather than resorting to
- the governemnt. IBM did just that. MS is not in the market to supply
- profits for other companies.
-
-
- >--
- >Jeff Sicherman
- >up the net without a .sig
-
- Dov
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