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- From: pallantj@unvax.union.edu (Joseph C. Pallante)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.011646.3918@unvax.union.edu>
- Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
- References: <BzHGFA.Boo@utdallas.edu> <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1h13t8INNj74@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Dec20.192717.29982@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:16:46 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
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- >In article <1h13t8INNj74@neuro.usc.edu>, merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- >|> >Well you can kiss American leadership in operating systems out goodbye.
- >|>
- >|> How much good software has been placed in the American or world market
- >|> by the Japanese? I can't think of a single package. Why?
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- >I'm not talking about the Japanese. I'm talking about the Russians who are
- >world class software developers, and to whom $300 a month is a princly
- >salary. I'm also talking about India which is no slouch either and has
- >companies to which you can contract out your programming jobs for much
- >cheaper than you can pay Americans to do it.
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- The day that a couple hundred software writers in Russia or India can
- produce an OS like OS/2.... Is the day that BG becomes humble.
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- It is very true that you can find a lot of VERY good programmers in
- these countries... But you can find 100 times more working at IBM
- or MicroSoft. Plus, you should consider how much it costs to create
- an OS... What was the number for the development of OS/2? I forget...
- Anyway, lets just say it could probably feed all the people in several
- of the commonwealth states for a year.... People in these countries,
- regardless of which countires, will not write software for free...
- They may be cheap, but they don't come free.
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- >And ye gads here in the US we're about to clobber one of our most successful
- >software companies.
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- >The U.S. antitrust laws made it impossible for US companies
- >to sucessfully unite to face the Japanese and Korean DRAM challange.
- >They are also responsible to a large degree for American companies
- >losing the consumer electronics business.
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- I think it is safe to assume that you havent taken too many political
- science courses... I urge you to read some books by Clyde
- Prestowitz (sp?)..... You could learn a LOT about what caused
- American companies to lose much of the consumer electronics business.
- I assure you, it had NOTHING to do with the antitrust laws...
- It had a lot to do with unfair trading practices, and ruthless
- market penetration schemes.
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- >Its true--you can't name a single software package for PC's from Japan.
- >Well non-coincidentally, the US software industry was the only one which
- >has escaped FTC anti-monopoly regulation. It was just too new and moved
- >to fast for the goverment to clobber. But I guess the goverment is
- >catching up with them.
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- I wouldnt say that is entirely correct... IBM has always
- been watched by the FTC. Mainly in the mainframe area, but still,
- the FTC has been looking on from the sideline.
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