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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.170259.26669@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:02:59 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.101424.22030@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.111904.21256@rz.uni-hildesheim.de>
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- In article <1992Dec22.111904.21256@rz.uni-hildesheim.de>, fles0092@rz.uni-hildesheim.de (Frank Leskova) writes:
-
- |> >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.
-
- *sigh* OK once more: the relationship between Microsoft and the clone makers
- is purely voluntary. If both the clone makers and Microsoft didn't think
- they could make money off the deal, neither one would sign the contract.
-
- Similarly, the relationship between the clone makers and their customers is
- purely voluntary. Nobody can force you to buy anything from anybody. You'll
- only buy something if you think its beneficial to you.
-
- It just happens that most people out there want MS DOS for their machines.
- OF COURSE this gives Microsoft tremendous leverage in the marketplace. But
- that's not Microsoft's fault--its the customers who demand it over DR DOS
- and OS/2.
-
- |> >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.
-
- Well you don't have to buy MS DOS to run DOS programs. The situation is entirly
- the same except for one thing: Bill Gates was a good enough businessman to
- keep the price of MS DOS always competative with his competator's OS's.
- So IBM lost market share by trying to fleece the public, and Microsoft retained
- market share by being competative.
-
- |> >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 you don't have a passion to be better than everyone else you're not going
- to last long.
-
- |> If they act fair they have absolutely no reason to fear the goverment.
-
- Don't make me laugh.
-