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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.104711.22331@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:47:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.184359.9551@iscsvax.uni.edu>, brackin5483@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- |> I got one question. When Windows becomes the only operating system out there(
- |> according to Bill) and Microsoft drives everyone else producing Windows
- |> softwere in to bankruptcy. Then what will happen to prices of operating
- |> systems and application software, once Microsoft has established a monopoly?
-
- OK, worst case scenario--Bill Gates drives every single OS vendor right into
- the ground. Windows rules forever in a brave new world of point and click right?
-
- The minute that Microsoft starts charging more for Windows than it would
- cost for someone else to write a clone or a competing OS Microsoft would
- have competetors again.
-
- Case in point: How many brands of Salt are there out there? Morton's pretty
- much has the market to itself. Not completely, but they dominate the salt
- market far more than Microsoft dominates the OS market. Why arn't we paying
- more for salt than Gold? After all you'll eventually die if you don't get any
- salt. Is it because Morton's executives believe that Americans have a
- god-given right to cheap salt? Hardly. They realize the best way to keep
- their market share is to keep the price as cheap as possible.
-