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- From: fles0092@rz.uni-hildesheim.de (Frank Leskova)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.111904.21256@rz.uni-hildesheim.de>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 11:19:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.101424.22030@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Universitaet Hildesheim, RZ
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- In article 22030@noose.ecn.purdue.edu, helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <1h4vq1INN2mj@tamsun.tamu.edu>, bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
- >
- >|> |>
- >|> |> First of all Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on OS's.
- >|>
- >|> But they would like to.
- >
- >Microsoft will only be as big as its customers want to make it.
-
- M$ will only be as big as customers have to make it, if they want
- to use PCs - whose vendors have to buy M$-DOS/WIN for every PC they
- sell.
-
- >|> prices will go up. Can it happen? I think so. Will it happen? Without
- >|> organizations like the FTC, I think it might.
- >
- >Ok, you tell me then why hasn't IBM just _dominated_ the PC clone market?
-
- IBM computers were to expensive compared with other PCs. On the other hand: you
- didn't have to buy an IBM to use the programs written for them.
-
- >|> I believe that the strength of the country is the ability for small companies
- >|> to grow into large companies. Microsoft is an excellent example.
- >
- >How many people are going to try to start a company and bust their gussets trying
- >to build it into a big one if they know that if they succeed the goverment
- >will just bust them up as a reward?
-
- Most people who start a company don't do so to put every competitor out
- of business - they start companies to make their living. If they act
- fair they have absolutely no reason to fear the goverment.
-
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