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- From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.173000.22341@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:30:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8194@lib.tmc.edu> <21DEC199210203176@moose.cccs.umn.edu>
- Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
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- In article <21DEC199210203176@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
- >In article <8194@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >> In article <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >> >Yep, that's the good ol' American way of doing business alright. If you can't
- >> >compete with someone, just get the Federal Goverment to break up their
- >> >company. The real "predatory practices" going on here are those vultures
- >> >of rival companies who are waiting to pick the bones of what's left of
- >> >Microsoft after the FTC's guts the carcass.
- >>
- >> I had to go back to the top of this article just to see if it was being posted
- >> from microsoft.com. This is some of the brown-nosiest writing I've seen in
- >> some time. The simple fact is that MS isn't playing fair - they force
- >> manufacturers to sell machines with Windows and DOS preloaded (don't believe
- >> that? just try to buy one without!),
- >
- >Really, try and buy a car without tires. I always considered it a convienence
- >that I didn't have to go over to Goodyear of Firestone after I bought a car :-)
- >Seriously, the charge wasn't that they forced anyone to do anything but that
- >they were selling DOS at a loss to keep DR-DOS or DesqView from cutting the
- >same sort of deal with the OEMs. There was nothing in the agreement that
- >said manufacturer X couldn't include product Y on their machine, just that
- >they would include DOS on all of their machines. BTW, the PC-Taylor chain
- >(or at least their stores in the Twin Cities) preload their systems with
- >DR-DOS and Windows.
- >
- >> they use undocumented OS calls in their apps,
- >
- >Well I use Word and Excel for design issues, not because they are faster
- >than the competition. And has been pointed out before, if this is such
- >a big advantage, why aren't Excel/Word the market leaders for their
- >product catagories.
- >
- >> and they remove features from their development tools just to hinder a
- >> competing OS.
- >
- >Exactly what tools are you talking about. This is apples and oranges.
-
- No. It's apples and apples.
- How about support for producing OS/2 executables? MSC 6.0x could, but
- 7.0 can't.
-
- Jeff
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