home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.advocacy:10962 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:3439
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!batcomputer!msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu!bai
- From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.035536.7481@tc.cornell.edu>
- Sender: news@tc.cornell.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu
- Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization
- References: <BzuFBF.8Dq@csulb.edu> <1992Dec26.040250.11884@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzvxpw.Lx3@csulb.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:55:36 GMT
- Lines: 44
-
- In article <Bzvxpw.Lx3@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec26.040250.11884@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >>In article <BzuFBF.8Dq@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Dec26.000917.7829@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
-
- >>Please answer in a definite way: Do you support a position that denies
- >>an individual/company from selling/buying _voluntarily_ their property
- >>under certain conditions ?
- >
- > I don't think I understand what you mean by 'under certain conditions'.
- >While I accept their right to choose to sell or not to sell their property
- >at their discretion, I do not accept the premise that they have an unfettered
- >right to sell (or, more generally, make contracts) in whatever way they see
- >fit independent of the laws and practices governing commercial activity in
- >this country. We are not discussing their right to distribute or to set
- >the price, but the way they interact with the market at large and an
- >obligation to engage in fair dealing in that marketplace.
- >
- > If all MS wants to do is contemplate the beauty of their creations they
- >can exercise their property rights to their hearts content. If they want to
- >participate in the marketplace, they will have to follow the rules that
- >govern it for the establishment of good order. That is what the FTC is
- >tasked to examine and make determinations about and MS will have plenty
- >of opportunity to contest, challenge, and otherwise deal with any conclusions
- >and actions coming from the FTC as befits their right to due process.
-
- To say that a vendor cannt buy at an agreed price from a software
- company, or that the company is allowed to display its ware but not
- sell it to whoever agrees to buy it, have property rights, is like
- saying that one who is free to think but not to talk has freedom
- of speech.
-
- A position like yours is not rare, and you are entitled to it, but
- at least be honset and say that you are against property rights,
- rather then using charged terms like "predatory practices".
-
- And to argue that the FTC is protecting the software customer when
- all evidence is the contary, and software prices are keep falling
- down all the time, is blindness at best.
-
- >Jeff Sicherman
- >up the net without a .sig
-
- Dov
-