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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.182720.11107@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> <1992Dec22.161425.0299694@locus.com> <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec24.175117.12752@pcatsc.UUCP> <1992Dec29.010935.2947@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:27:20 GMT
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- In <1992Dec29.010935.2947@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec24.175117.12752@pcatsc.UUCP>, palmer@pcatsc.UUCP (Doug Palmer) writes:
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- >|> 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.
-
- Well, if that's the level of your ability to understand, I guess
- there's no point in trying to discuss reality with you.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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