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- From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <rhoward.725158911@matd>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 01:01:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.161425.0299694@locus.com> <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.234828.0203999@locus.com> <blt2and@rpi.edu>
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- moncrg@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec22.234828.0203999@locus.com> lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison) writes:
- >>
- >>Or perhaps, I already own DOS N.n, I have to pony up $50 for an upgrade
- >>that these systems resellers get for $10, gee, I think I just got
- >>gouged. Again, I ain't happy with Microsoft. Of course, it is far
- >>cheaper for me to pirate it, but then I am allowing M$ to force me
- >>to become a criminal. I ain't happy with that state of affairs again.
- >>
- >its probably a lot cheaper for microsoft to ship 1000 copies to one
- >location than 1 copie to each of a thousand locations, therefore its
- >cheaper if you order lots of them. (ever heard of volume discounts??)
-
- So in other words, when I go to Egghead I buy their only copy of
- DOS, then they call Redmond directly and order *1* copy to replace
- it? Come-on, Egghead probably sells more DOS than many clone makers.
-
- Why can't Egghead get it for $10 a copy and under-cut everyone
- else by selling it for $20? The point is that the $10 copies
- go to capture a market, the $50 copies go to people that already
- want it. Sort of how drug pushers work as a matter of fact....
-
- Robert
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