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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.235306.1899@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec23.032235.18340@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:53:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.032235.18340@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS) writes:
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- |> Ego? This has nothing to do with ego. The goal of this is so that American
- |> companies (plural) might *better* compete with each other as well as the world
- |> market. Giving one company an overwhelming dominance in this industry would
- |> be the most anti competitive thing we could possibly do.
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- Hmmm..... ok, let me get this straight. Microsoft competes so well now that
- the FTC needs to take its competative advantages away because it is being
- "anticompetative."
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- The above sounds a lot to me like "War is peace" and "Slavery is freedom".
- Downright Orwellian.
-
- Abraham Lincoln said it best: "You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the
- strong."
-