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  1. Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.advocacy:11022 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:3472
  2. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ecn.purdue.edu!helz
  4. From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
  5. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec28.231337.1515@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
  7. Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
  8. Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
  9. References: <1992Dec22.095022.21715@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <BzoG15.21q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec23.013422.24038@sequent.com> <BzpBH3.Los@csulb.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:13:37 GMT
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  13. In article <BzpBH3.Los@csulb.edu>, sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
  14.  
  15. |>     Anyway, MS's size and revenue is due a lot more to their presence
  16. |> at the dawn of the microcomputer age and having the cash coes of DOS
  17. |> and Windows to feed the other activities. 
  18.  
  19. Not really.  How many bazillion companies can you name which were there
  20. at the beginning and which now are out of business or sold out to other
  21. companies?
  22.  
  23. The reason Microsoft is still around is good business, plain and simple.
  24.