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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.010935.2947@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:09:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.175117.12752@pcatsc.UUCP>, palmer@pcatsc.UUCP (Doug Palmer) writes:
-
- |> You are *completely* missing the point. It's not the hardware vendors
- |> who are adversely affected by MicroSoft's predatory practices, but the
- |> competitor OS vendors. In effect, when MicroSoft enters into an agreement
- |> to tie royalty payments to units sold, they are forcing the hardware
- |> vendor to add the price of DOS/Windows to any other bundled operating
- |> system. This is an "unfair" practice in re the OS vendor, not the
- |> hardware vendor. They have effectively increased the cost of all other
- |> operating systems. That's illegal.
-
- Let me get this straight--Microsoft is offering really good deals to
- hardware vendors. Those deals are so good, that hardware vendors don't
- typically don't want to buy from anyone but Microsoft. The FTC would be
- perfectly happy if Microsoft was offering _bad_ deals to hardware vendors.
-
- In other words, good deals, BAD.
- bad deals, GOOD.
-
- I think I understand now.
-