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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.095709.21777@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:57:09 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.3155.5804@dosgate>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- In article <1992Dec21.3155.5804@dosgate>, richard.anstruther@canrem.com (richard anstruther) writes:
- |> -> From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- |>
- |> -> |> to leverage other companies' apps out of the
- |> -> |> marketplace by giving its own application programmers the inside
- |> -> |> track to upcoming changes and undocumented features in the OS.
- |> -> Would somebody please tell me exactly what is wrong with that?
- |> -> Besides whining "its not _fair_!!!" Microsoft owns Windows and DOS.
- |> -> What Microsoft wants to reveal or not reveal isn't anybody's business
- |> -> but Microsofts.
- |>
- |> What's wrong with it is that it is illegal and has been for a long
- |> time.
-
- And we're supposed to be good citizens and not protest bad laws. After all,
- its the law.
-
- |> If you mean what is wrong with it in a moral sense, no doubt
- |> a lengthy debate is possible, like it is with most moral questions.
-
- The moral sense is exactly the one I'm refering to. And its not lengthy
- at all--when expressed in honest terms and not in bogus phrases like
- "fair" and "anticompetative." Here it is in honest English:
-
- Microsoft's competetors are trying to use the guns of the federal goverment
- to commit armed robbery of Microsoft's Trade secrets.
-
- The fact that it is "legal" to do this doesn't make it any less heinous.
-