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- From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:14:19 GMT
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- In article <rhoward.724964340@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
- >bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
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- >The problem is that I cannot call my local clone vendor and
- >get a PC with DR-DOS installed. Why? Because MS has used
- >their enormous market presence to, in effect, force that
- >PC maker to install MS-DOS on *all* PCs they make. Even
- >if they don't send out my PC with MS-DOS on it, MS gets the
- >licensing fee anyway. So if I *really* want DR-DOS, it costs
- >me money (to go and purchase it), and time (because I have to
- >install it over MS-DOS). DR-DOS had better be *damn* better for
- >most people to bother with that....
-
- That is because people dont bother with a new operating system
- until they clearly see the advantage of purchasing it. So it
- is PEOPLE, not MS who "do" the monopoly.
-
- Of course there is an advantage to the company who does things
- first. But they have to do it. MS did, others did not. Is not
- it fair to compensate a company who did things before everybody
- else ? I think it is. Otherwise we would have stagnation
-
- >Robert
- >--
- >| Robert L. Howard | Georgia Tech Research Institute |
- >| robert.howard@matd.gatech.edu | MATD Laboratory |
- >| (404) 528-7165 | Atlanta, Georgia 30332 |
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >| "See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when |
- >| the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they |
- >| do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating |
- >| jobs." -- Dave Barry |
- Dov
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