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  1. Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.advocacy:11014 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:3467
  2. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!bobatk
  4. From: bobatk@microsoft.com (Bob Atkinson)
  5. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec28.200542.20555@microsoft.com>
  7. Date: 28 Dec 92 20:05:42 GMT
  8. Organization: Microsoft Corporation
  9. References: <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> <1992Dec22.214057.5756@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
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  11.  
  12. Richard Warner writes:
  13. >The downturn on pricing has to do with hardware competition, and has
  14. >nothing to do with MS.  
  15.  
  16. Would the "hardware competion" have been anywhere near as intense as
  17. we presently find without a common OS that they all share?
  18.  
  19.     Bob Atkinson
  20.     (yes, Microsoft)
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