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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.153800.2223@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:38:00 CST
- References: <BzHGFA.Boo@utdallas.edu> <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8194@lib.tmc.edu> <21DEC199210203176@moose.cccs.umn.edu>
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- In article <21DEC199210203176@moose.cccs.umn.edu>, rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK) 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.
- >
- >
- > --rick
- >
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- > | Richard Hoffbeck INTERNET: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu |
- >
-
- Well Rick, Since you introduced the tire analogy, lets examine
- it a little furthur. Would you consider it a convenience if you went
- to buy a $70,000 porche, and the dealer said "Sure we will sell
- you one, and they come already equipped with $30 Uniroyal Tiger Paws, beacuse
- Uniroyal only allows us to sell Tigerpaws on the Yugos we sell if will make
- Tigerpaws standard all cars we sell." Well Why pay the extra $120 for four
- tires that you didn't want to begin with? Of course you would want Goodyear
- VR-60's, Michellin's or Pirelli P-7's, but you have to remove the Tigerpaws, buy
- the tires you want separately, and put them on yourself.
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- This analogy is no different than the MS-DOG/Windoze bundling that
- Microsoft has pressured Clone Makers into. If I wanted a Yugo with cheap tires,
- I would buy one. But I prefer OS/2, and would like to have the option of having
- it preinstalled on a machine I buy.
-
- Michael Kupka
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- My Other car isn't a Yugo, and My Other OS isn't MS-DOG/WINDOZE
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