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- From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:23:55 GMT
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- In article <BzMLLx.JtD@news.iastate.edu> TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.164545.28198@tc.cornell.edu>,
- >bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec21.154910.6846@kth.se> d89-zke@dront.nada.kth.se (Zoltan Kelemen) writes:
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- > I think I'm seeing the argument from a different angle than
- >you. I don't see people complaining about unfair business practices
- >because MS wrote DOS. People are complaining about (as SJB so
- >eloquently put it) MS making up the rules but not playing by them.
- >MS makes OS's. That's fine. MS makes applications. That's fine,
- >too. The problem is that they are allowing their application
- >developers to use calls from their OS that other developers can't
- >use. This gives MS applications an unfair advantage over the
- >competitors applications.
-
- Nobody is forcing any other developer to write a new OS and make
- his/her new rules. If MS changes the rules, let them suffer the
- consequences and die. Simply dont buy their products. It may happen
- with OS/2. But it is their business decision because it is their money.
-
- > The question isn't a matter of ownership of the OS. MS wrote
- >MS-DOS, and nobody is going to argue that (I guess it depends on
- >what I mean by 'wrote'...). It's a question of interpreting the
- >law. That is what the FTC is out to do. If the law is interpreted
- >that MS is being unfair, then the FTC has every right to break up
- >the company. Period.
-
- You are arguing circularly here. Of course the FTC has the muscles
- to affect them adversely. But does the fact that the FTC can and
- may do it, make it fair ? Do you claim that laws on the books are
- always fair ?
-
- > And to be completely honest, I think that even if MS is broken
- >up into several smaller companies, it will be a largely symbolic
- >act. It probably won't affect people that much.
-
- Do you claim that property should remain private only so long as
- someone is not too successful, but if one is, it should become the
- goverment's ?
-
- >Timothy Miller
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- Dov
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