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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.231029.1432@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec23.043125.42912@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:10:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.043125.42912@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS) writes:
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- |> >In other words, if the market DESIRED OS/2 more than DOS+Windows, and
- |> >IBM made a similar incentive, Vendors would be flocking to IBM's door
- |> >instead of Billy's.
- |>
- |> Not when Billy is creating the desire by trying to make certain that
- |> absolutely everyone has a copy of Windows.
- |> People have this annoying tendancy to
- |> consider whatever they have to be the best, and if Billy and Company make
- |> certain that everyone has their system, a lot of folks are just simply going
- |> to think it is the only system worth buying regardless of whether it is or
- |> isn't.
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- So the government should prevent Microsoft from makeing it easy to buy
- Windows "for our own good?" People are just too dumb to know what they
- want so the goverment should legislate what is good for them.
-
- Don't you see that this is the same reasoning used to justify "family values"
- legislation? Do you like it when the goverment interferes in what goes on
- between "consenting adults" in their bedrooms "for their own morality?"
- Same principle in FTC trying to regulate business between consenting
- companies.
-