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- From: palmer@pcatsc.UUCP (Doug Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Summary: Helzerman still lost.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.135034.6025@pcatsc.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 13:50:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.201103.28693@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec24.175117.12752@pcatsc.UUCP> <1992Dec29.010935.2947@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.010935.2947@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >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.
-
- You're still lost.
-
- Let me try to put it in a way you might understand:
-
- You propose an "agreement" with your girlfriend that you may
- date other women. She agrees just so long as she can accompany
- you on any such dates.
-
- You may not mind -- but is it fair to the other girls? Better
- yet -- is it fair that the other girls get the reputation of
- dating some guy and his "other girl" and have no choice about
- going out on the date in the first place?
-
- The problem here isn't that the hardware vendors "typically don't want
- to buy from anyone but Microsoft." It's that MicroSoft enters into
- agreements which force the vendor to charge more to people who request
- competetors products than those products would normally cost.
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