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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.002630.25000@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec27.210454.5039@actrix.gen.nz> <28DEC199211373834@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1992Dec28.204010.16860@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:26:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.204010.16860@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >In article <28DEC199211373834@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
- >Unfortunately......(*sigh*) I am not at liberty to disclose this information.
-
-
- Can you hint? I've heard stories about a certain printing
- product that was made mostly obsolete with Win3.1 and
- suspicions that MS cheated.
-
- Not even email?
-
-
- >My point of contention with the original poster was on the general
- >acceptability of organisations like the FTC or the DOJ anti-trust crowd. The
- >object of supervising/regulating business in order to prevent/undo monopolies
- >is an idea that most people find acceptable.
-
-
- That's true. I would tend to agree with the posters that
- argued that MS did not have an undue monopoly. Myself,
- I run DRDOS when I dual boot. Clearly, there are alternatives
- to MSDOS. In fact, if MS had included all of the utilities
- that DR did in DRDOS 6.0 in MSDOS5, they would have been slapped
- with so many anti=trust suits that you wouldn't be able to
- lift the newspaper it'd be so thick.
-
- >Yamanari did not.
-
-
- Unfortunately, no. This is the first time I have posted on this
- thread other than pointing out that the stock had not split,
- and that it had dropped to less than 1/3rd of the price I paid
- for my measly 5 shares.
-
- *I* did not commnet on the FCC smidgen that I can remember.
-
-
- >My detailed knowledge of the FTC is a bit dated (from the
- >time when I lived in Canada). I'm actually a Canadian living in new Zealand, so
- >my knowledge of things North American is pretty good. I have also been fairly
- >interested and active in number of areas of public policy through interest
- >groups.
- >
- >Steve
- >
- >
- >--
- >Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | On Sept. 19th, 88% of NZ voters opted
- >Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | for proportional representation. It
- >+64 4 478 4714 | looks like we may get a more
- >**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | democratic system "real soon now".
- --
- This weakness that you've told us of, it must be very comforting
- to have some make-believe specter on which to lay your blame.
-
- Blaming society for your problems is like blaming clouds for rain.
-