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- From: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- References: <BzHGFA.Boo@utdallas.edu> <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec23.161004.19950@Celestial.COM>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:21:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.161004.19950@Celestial.COM>, ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones) writes:
- > >|> Rival software companies have complained publicly and apparently to
- > >|> the Federal Trade Commission that Microsoft uses "predatory
- > >|> practices" in selling its operating systems.
- >
- > >Yep, that's the good ol' American way of doing business alright. If you can't
- > >compete with someone, just get the Federal Goverment to break up their
- > >company. The real "predatory practices" going on here are those vultures
- > >of rival companies who are waiting to pick the bones of what's left of
- > >Microsoft after the FTC's guts the carcass.
- >
- > You have not been a victem of Microsoft'a predatory practices. Just see
- > what happens if you come up with a clever inovation that might really cut
- > into thier profit. I have worked for such a company. We just talk to a few
- > companies about what we wanted to do and within 30 days got a letter from
- > the Microsoft legal department that said,
- > "Just try it, and we will sue you out of existance."
- > Our lawyer told us we were well with in our rights BUT we could not afford
- > the legal assult. Two years later, Microsoft came out with the product.
- > Nice gut, that Gates.
-
- Perhaps you could give us the particulars, like the product in question and
- why MS thought that they would have a basis for litigation. There seem to
- be numerous counter-examples like Stacker, various backup utilities, disk
- compressors, etc.
-
-
- --rick
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