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- From: palmer@pcatsc.UUCP (Doug Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Summary: Missing the point on FTC concerns
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.175117.12752@pcatsc.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 17:51:17 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> <1992Dec22.161425.0299694@locus.com> <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.161425.0299694@locus.com>, lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison) 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) writes:
- >|> >
- >|>
- >|> 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?
-
- You are *completely* missing the point. It's not the hardware vendors
- who are adversely affected by MicroSoft's predatory practices, but the
- competitor OS vendors. In effect, when MicroSoft enters into an agreement
- to tie royalty payments to units sold, they are forcing the hardware
- vendor to add the price of DOS/Windows to any other bundled operating
- system. This is an "unfair" practice in re the OS vendor, not the
- hardware vendor. They have effectively increased the cost of all other
- operating systems. That's illegal.
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