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- From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:32:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.222017.433@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,
- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <BzoCzH.Ds0@news.iastate.edu>, TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
- >
- >|> 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.
-
- If this is the way you see it, what do you consider the IRS?
- Once again, I won't say whether this is right or wrong, just that
- the FTC will decide if a law is being broken. And as a previous
- poster replied, the undocumented calls don't seem to be the issue
- right now.
-
- >
- >|> >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?
-
- Yes, but I think after a certain point it is called
- racketeering (or is that extortion?). Note, I'm not calling MS
- racketeers, just saying that the contracts they have allegedly
- signed with people are very restrictive.
-
-