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- From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.024249.47339@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 02:42:49 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 54
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- In article <1992Dec22.104711.22331@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, helz@ecn.purdue.edu (R
- andall 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 ther
- e(
- >|> 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 righ
- t?
- >
- >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.
-
- How? They drove them all into the ground. It takes capital to start a
- business and a lot of it to build a successful system. That isn't going to
- just magically drop out of the sky an viola, MS has competitors. Also, since
- MS once destroyed these companies, and they have ovewhelming market share,
- even if they did start up, it would be fairly easy for them to stomp on any
- company which challenged them. In addition, since MS destroyed all other
- systems in this example, compatibility would be required for the system to get
- off the ground. With MS sueing and doing other things to compete, it would be
- nearly impossible for a company to make a real dent.
-
-
- >
- >Case in point: How many brands of Salt are there out there? Morton's pretty
- >much has the market to itself. Not completely, but they dominate the salt
- >market far more than Microsoft dominates the OS market. Why arn't we paying
- >more for salt than Gold? After all you'll eventually die if you don't get any
- >salt. Is it because Morton's executives believe that Americans have a
- >god-given right to cheap salt? Hardly. They realize the best way to keep
- >their market share is to keep the price as cheap as possible.
- >
-
- How many salt mines are there? Not too many and Morton controls most of the
- important ones in America. It is very difficult to compete if there is no way
- for a person to get the same item in a cost effective fashion. Now Morton
- isn't going to be stupid, and make it economically feasable for another
- method to be developed, but that doesn't change the real situation. I think
- that is just a bad example.
-
- --
- Stacy John Behrens
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