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- From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- References: <1992Dec21.193512.13588@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1ha4sqINNeu1@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:14:11 GMT
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- In article <1ha4sqINNeu1@hpscit.sc.hp.com> kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin) writes:
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- >In most other industries, you do not have a situation where a competitor
- >controls another segment of the market that is able to give them an
- >advantage and you a disadvantage. Attempts to do this have usually
- >brought the FTC around and resulted in changes by the company doing it.
- >Whether the case has merit or not is yet to be seen. But I believe
- >that it is to the disadvantage of us the customers if we return to the
- >days of the robber barons and uncontrolled monopolies.
-
- All this is a speculation of yours. It did not yet happened and there
- are no indications that it is going to happen in the direction
- you describe. It does not make sense to penalize MS because something
- _may_ happen. You dont suggest that we accuse any gun-holder of an
- intent to murder and put him in prison, do you?
-
- Dov
-