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- From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.163317.0299924@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
- References: <1992Dec21.225330.14706@nosc.mil> <1992Dec21.184359.9551@iscsvax.uni.edu> <1992Dec22.104711.22331@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:33:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.104711.22331@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >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.
- Really, I think the Lesle people will argue with you quite a bit, and every
- store I know has a Plain Wrap Brand on the shelves. In shelf space (a
- measure of profitibility in markets) Mortons has less. Of course, Salt is
- so easy to produce cheaply, Mortons had better not try to dominate, some
- silly wolf with an eye for profit will undercut them considerably. Sea Salt
- is a brand produced by one such wolf who found a niche market, and does
- quite will.
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-
- --Lowell Morrison
- --Uncle Wolf
-
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