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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.023401.25792@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:34:01 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : In article <BzHGFA.Boo@utdallas.edu>, goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL) writes:
- :
- : |> REDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1992 DEC 18 (NB) -- Business Week
- : |> magazine, in its December 28th issue, says FTC investigators have
- : |> concluded that the software company has engaged in anticompetitive
- : |> actions. The magazine also reports that the investigators are
- : |> preparing recommendations as to how to proceed against the company.
- :
- : Well you can kiss American leadership in operating systems out
- goodbye.
-
- You must mean commercial leadership..... Surely nobody would suggest
- MS has any sort of technical lead?
-
- : Once the Federal Goverment starts trying to enforce "fairness" you know
- : its all over. No matter that the entire Japanese economy is structured
- : in an "anticompetitive" way. No matter that software is one of the last
- : remaining strong points of the American economy. No matter that American
- : programmers are trying to compete with programmers in Eastern Europe who
- : are thrilled to work for $300 a month. Nope--we've got to tear into and
- : destroy one of our strongest companies.
-
- Welcome to the world of the 'free market'. With this and the NAFTA
- maybe the US will start to realise what Canada has been suffering
- under Free Trade. Hurts when the shoe is on the other foot, doesn't it?
-
- : How Bill Gates runs his business is nobody's business but Bill
- Gates's.
-
- Which particular planet are you from?
- :
- : |> Rival software companies have complained publicly and apparently to
- : |> the Federal Trade Commission that Microsoft uses "predatory
- : |> practices" in selling its operating systems.
- :
- : Yep, that's the good ol' American way of doing business alright. If you can't
- : compete with someone, just get the Federal Goverment to break up their
- : company. The real "predatory practices" going on here are those vultures
- : of rival companies who are waiting to pick the bones of what's left of
- : Microsoft after the FTC's guts the carcass.
-
- No - MS's way of doing business is the "good ol' American way". Look
- at the early history of IBM, look at the way ITT has behaved in the world.
-
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
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