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- From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:40:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.144018.23974@wes.on.ca>
- References: <rhoward.725158911@matd> <28DEC199213292659@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1992Dec28.234315.0201219@locus.com>
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- lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison) writes:
- > Yep, but then the $10 price, plus a $5 book (I have several of the Gateway
- > manuals on my shelf) is a great deal for a $120+ list product. No other
- > deal that I know of has a 8 to 1 price advantage between what I can buy
- > a new installation retail, and get it with the machine.
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- How about the bundling of Ami Pro and 1-2-3, or of Paradox and Quattro Pro?
- Rumours say that Lotus and/or Borland get something like $10/copy, which
- would make the price advantage 39.5 to 1.
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- > This is not to say that Microsoft is guilty of fraud,
- > that is what the FTC and courts will decide.
-
- So should the FTC investigate Borland and Lotus as well?
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- Yes, it's certainly bad for the consumers to be offered such low prices on
- software ... NOT!
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- [ \tom haapanen "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
- [ tomh@wes.on.ca "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
- [ waterloo engineering software "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
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