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- From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.221627.15894@unlv.edu>
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- Organization: UNLV Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec21.145115.25441@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 22:16:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >In article <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >I dont care what MS _might_ do. I do care about what they have
- >done. By now, with the exception of IBM (with an early help from MS),
- >nobody was able to produce as cheaply an operating system that people really
- >_wanted_, other then MS. Just take a look at the history and you will
- >see how prices are becoming lower, and new applications that people
- >_want_, are being written as a result of MS-Windows.
-
- Here's a quarter, go BUY a clue. And remember that all MS is they owe
- to DR. Why? Because if DR hadn't f*cked with IBM, THEY would have been
- the company IBM hired to write the opperating system for the IBM PC.
- Bill Gates would still be in his garage fiddling with QDOS...heh.
-
- >If MS is capable of keeping prices down for the customer, why
- >should _they_ be penalized and not the less efficient companies ?
-
- Yeah, that is what everybody said when they were buying oil below
- cost. They learned quick when suddenly the company they had been
- buying from was the only one left and hosed then all real good... For
- some reason, you don't seem to think there should be laws. Your idea
- of fair is when everybody cheats just as much...
-
- TTYL - Steve
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- Steve Lumos - slumos@cs.unlv.edu
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