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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.222017.433@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:20:17 GMT
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- In article <BzoCzH.Ds0@news.iastate.edu>, TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
- |> >
- |> >Bill Gates doesn't have to show anybody his OS calls any more than he
- |> >has to show them his underware.
- |> >
- |>
- |> I don't think many people are too interested in Bill Gates'
- |> underwear. I think that a lot of people are interested in seeing
- |> what sort of undocumented calls are in MS-DOS and MS-Windows. And
- |> he doesn't have to show these undocumented calls, but when a company
- |> uses the undocumented calls of thier own OS to give them an unfair
- |> advantage, then they have be cautious because the FTC will probably
- |> step in.
-
- "unfair" is such a vague word.
-
-
- |> enacted. I'm not really that interested in the breakup of MS, but I
- |> am interested in the contracts that MS signs with PC vendors being
- |> scruitinized, and revised if they are found to be in violation of
- |> the rules that the FTC has set up.
-
- We'll I am interested in the rules that the FTC has set up and some of
- them I have a real problem with. No federal commission should be able
- to mandate the theft of property, but that is exactly what the FTC has
- done.
-
- |> >Hey, Microsoft didn't hold a gun to anybody clone maker's head and
- |> >force them to sign a contract. Both parties voluntarily signed contracts
- |> >because they both thought it would benefit them.
- |> >
- |>
- |> I agree, no guns were involved. I'm against the nature of the
- |> contracts signed.
-
- Pardon me, but isn't the nature of the contracts signed the business of only
- the people who sign it? If they both like the contract enough to sign it
- then why would you possibly be against it or even care?
-