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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.175822.1037@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec22.113033.21432@rz.uni-hildesheim.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:58:22 GMT
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- fles0092@rz.uni-hildesheim.de (Frank Leskova) writes:
- : In article 22124@noose.ecn.purdue.edu, helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : >In article <BzMLLx.JtD@news.iastate.edu>, TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
- [....]
- : >|> competing as heavily in the applications market. Now, though, MS
- : >|> has practically forced (yes *forced*) vendors to either load MS-DOS
- : >
- : >Force is the wrong word to use here. When Bill Gates starts toting
- : >M-16's like the U.S. Army does, then we can start talking about force.
- :
- : It seems to me that you don't know which means of force exist!
- : Holding a gun at someones head or using M-16's are only two.
- : Delaying (or even rejecting) deliveries of ordered software are other
- : means which have become quite "popular" (I do NOT mean MicroSoft).
- : And I am quite sure that there would be several other ways of
- : influencing the decision of signing a contract with MS.
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- 'As through this life you wander,
- You'll mweet some funny men,
- Some'll rob you with a sixgun
- And some with a fountain pen.'
- Woody Guthrie, Pretty Boy Floyd.
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
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