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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.004640.2498@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:46:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.161004.19950@Celestial.COM>, ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones) writes:
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- |> You have not been a victem of Microsoft'a predatory practices. Just see
- |> what happens if you come up with a clever inovation that might really cut
- |> into thier profit. I have worked for such a company. We just talk to a few
- |> companies about what we wanted to do and within 30 days got a letter from
- |> the Microsoft legal department that said,
- |> "Just try it, and we will sue you out of existance."
- |> Our lawyer told us we were well with in our rights BUT we could not afford
- |> the legal assult. Two years later, Microsoft came out with the product.
- |> Nice gut, that Gates.
-
- Ouch! What Microsoft was doing was using the power of the state to intimidate
- you. That is _wrong_. If the FTC was going after Microsoft because of that I
- wouldn't mind.
-
- Instead, they are going after Microsoft because their OS programmers talk to
- their Application programmers. I don't see anything wrong with that at all.
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