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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: <1992Dec23.040611.43046@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 04:06:11 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, helz@ecn.purdue.edu (R
- andall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.161425.0299694@locus.com>, lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morri
- son) writes:
- >|> In article <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.
- edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >|> >In article <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) write
- s:
- >|> >
- >|>
- >|> Lots on Standard Oil & Unfair Competition Deleted.
- >
- >|> MS has not kept the prices down, infact if you look at their $8 a unit
- >|> for bundled Windows for Workgroups vs the $100 per station that the
- >|> end user pays, you might suspect that MS is price gouging the end
- >|> user shamelessly.
- >
- >*sigh* is anybody forcing people to buy MS DOS at $100 a copy? Any sales
- >which go on are completely voluntary between buyer and seller. Obviously
- >both parties are happy about the price or it wouldn't get sold. If
- >Microsoft and its customers are happy, why interfere with them?
- >
-
- Because *I* am the customer at the end of the line and *I* am not happy with
- getting stiffed for something I don't want, need, or intend to use. I refuse
- to pay 1 penny more than I have to for my software. I do not wish to pay
- even $8 for software I have no intention of using. Clear enough for you?
-
- --
- 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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