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- From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
- Subject: Re: Be more creative than the FTC!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.214614.15030@unlv.edu>
- Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User)
- Organization: UNLV Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec20.220753.1755@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 21:46:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.220753.1755@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >Why don't Novel, Lotus, et al, find a more creative solution to their problem
- >than just using the FTC as a club against Microsoft? Here are some better
- >alternatives:
- >
- >
- >1. Form a consortium with Digital Research (who makes DR DOS, a fully
- > compatible MS DOS clone) to make a Windows 3.x clone.
- >
- >2. Better yet, stop developing for Windows/Dos until Microsoft does what
- > they want it to. Power plays go both ways. At this point Microsoft's
- > biggest nightmare would be if all of the big software houses dumped
- > Windows and Windows NT and started developing for OS/2 and Unix.
- >
- >3. Cut special deals with PC clone vendors who don't bundle MS-DOS/windows.
- > If they bundle OS/2, give them discount versions of Lotus 123 for
- > OS/2 or Novel for OS/2.
- >
- >4. Charge higher prices for Windows versions of their software than for
- > OS/2, Mac, or UNIX versions.
- >
- >If Windows 3.x wasn't being supported by software developers, it would be
- >going nowhere. If other software companies don't like the way that
- >Microsoft plays, then they don't have to play with Microsoft. There are
- >other games in town.
-
- Oooo, golly, why don't they just GIVE all their source code to
- microsoft and leave since they obviously can't cheat well enough.
-
- And BTW, DRDOS is not 100% compatable with MSDOS. MicroSoft works on
- Windoze code until it breaks under DRDOS but not MSDOS every time they
- release a new version.
-
- I've been following your cute little thread. You are a total idiot and
- I can see that you WANT MS to have a monopoly just by reading your
- suggestions above. If everybody else raises their prices, people will
- not stop using Windows, they will just switch to buying MS apps. I'm
- sure that would just break the skums' hearts. But then, once MS is the
- only company developing for Windows, I suppose you think that they
- will be grateful to all the blind little lemmings like yourself and
- keep their prices low...HA!
-
- Oh, and if MS isn't doing anything illegal, the FTC won't do anything
- to them. If they are doing something illegal, they deserve to be
- punished. Next time you get pulled over, feel free to tell the cop
- that it is YOUR car and what you do in it is none of HIS or ANYONE
- elses business. You can get a free meal that way.
-
- --
- Steve Lumos - slumos@cs.unlv.edu
-