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- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:08:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.050817.29522@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Dec23.032235.18340@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Dec28.235306.1899@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1992Dec28.235306.1899@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >
- > 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."
- >
- > 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."
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- I think this quote is out of context.....
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- In this situation, I would state the matter in this way....:
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- "When the strong cease to protect the weak, the weak must be protected from the
- strong." Steve Withers 1992.
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- Now since it never was Microsoft's job to protect its competitors......someone
- else (the FTC? of DOJ?) has to keep MS from competing so well that it is
- uneconomic for anyone to compete with them.
-
- Steve
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