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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <BzLMIH.II3@csulb.edu> <1992Dec21.145115.25441@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:58:07 GMT
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- bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
-
- >I dont care what MS _might_ do. I do care about what they have
- >done. By now, with the exception of IBM (with an early help from MS),
- >nobody was able to produce as cheaply an operating system that people really
- >_wanted_, other then MS. Just take a look at the history and you will
- >see how prices are becoming lower, and new applications that people
- >_want_, are being written as a result of MS-Windows.
-
- >If MS is capable of keeping prices down for the customer, why
- >should _they_ be penalized and not the less efficient companies ?
-
- Oh please - you can't really believe Microsoft would be selling their
- software cleaply if there was no competition. Microsoft - like any other
- company - will charge as much as they can for their products. If you
- eliminate their competitors their prices would go up *fast*.
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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