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- From: craigdo@microsoft.com (Craig Dowell)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.235025.28272@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:50:25 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <BzHGFA.Boo@utdallas.edu> <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <BzKsJ2.Bwp@csulb.edu>
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- In article <BzKsJ2.Bwp@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >>How Bill Gates runs his business is nobody's business but Bill Gates's.
- >
- > Sorry to disappoint you, but this issue was settle quite a long time
- >ago when the robber barons ran roughshod over the economy and used
- >market power in anti-ethical, non-competitive ways. For better or for
- >worse, the country decided that there was a social and economic interest
- >for the country at large in regulating corporate behavior, particularly
- >when it was structured or operated in anti-competitive ways. And the government
- >was given this power in the Constitution in the regulation of interstate
- >commerce. Now of course, if Bill wants to just sell his 'wares in Washington,
- >perhaps we can just ignore him ... he could open a little software-stand
- >on a street corner in Redmond.
-
- No. Not possible. You obviously don't know any of the problems involved in
- doing business in Redmond. Why, to start with, there are already little
- espresso-stands on every corner in Redmond :-)
-
- -- Craig
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