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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:39:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.153800.2223@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>, z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
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- |> 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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- It is _exactly_ analogous, but it serves to prove the opposite point.
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- The Yugo's belong to Yugo--if the dealer wants to sell Yugo's he's going
- to have to do so on Yugo's terms, or stop being a Yugo dealer.
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- Similarly, the Porsche belongs to the dealer. If you want to buy a Porsche from
- that dealer, you're going to have to do so on the dealer's terms, or buy from
- another dealer.
-
- In either case, if I own something, and you want it, you're going to have to
- deal with me or your not going to get it. That's what "ownership" is all
- about.
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