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- From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.041934.17322@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 04:19:34 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Dec22.222017.433@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Ran
- dall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <BzoCzH.Ds0@news.iastate.edu>, TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I
- Miller) writes:
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- (stuff deleted)
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- >|> >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?
- >
-
- Not when those contracts affect third parties, namely *me*. You had better
- believe I care. If the system that I prefer is driven out of the market by
- such tactics, you can bet your fanny that I will be more than a little pissed.
- Those contracts involve what the company is going to sell to third parties. I
- along with several million other people am that third party. I also have a
- problem with paying for things I don't want. Thus I am involved, whether MS
- likes it or not.
-
- --
- Stacy John Behrens
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- The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they
- serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not
- legitimacy. [Albert Einstein]
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