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- From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.160217.0221327@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
- References: <1992Dec27.035536.7481@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzwwrn.8uM@csulb.edu> <1992Dec27.144612.18117@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:02:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.144612.18117@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >In article <Bzwwrn.8uM@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >>
- >> You are a master at raising straw-man issues. Absolutely nobody is
- >>trying to stop MS from selling its 'wares.
- >>The issue is whether MS
- >>treats its distributors and other sellers fairly and equally and
- >>uses practices consistent with US law.
- >>the concept of 'agreed price'
- >>becomes somewhat hollow if coercion is involved.
- >
- >Only the US law is coersive, if it uses _force_ to limit MS from
- >selling its property as it chooses to whoever chooses to buy it.
- >
- This is a specious argument. Microsoft is incorporated under the laws
- of the state of Washington and the United States of America. In seeking
- Incorporation, Microsoft agreed explicitly to follow the rules and
- regulations--no matter how restrictive--of those jurisdiction that
- said incoropration was sought under. To say that the rules, that MS
- incorportated under, are unfair now and should be changed, even though
- these are the same rules that allowed Billy Gates to make 5.5 billion
- US Dollars, is a very unteniable argument. If Bill Gates was unwilling
- to live by these rules, then his incorporation should have been from
- Tonga, the Lesser Antillies, or Lichtenstein. Since he incorporated
- in the United States, he has to bear the brunt of any violation of
- the rules he has previously agreed to follow.
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- The rest deleted as irrelivant.
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- >>Jeff Sicherman
- >>up the net without a .sig
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- > DOV
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- --Lowell Morrison
- --Uncle Wolf.
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