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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.224332.15462@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec20.193959.250@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <wiegand.725577960@lido16> <1992Dec29.172229.3466@microsoft.com> <8236@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:43:32 GMT
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- In article <8236@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
-
- |> Not necessarily. For example, say that MS charges $8 per machine for the
- |> every-machine-gets-one contract, and $20 per license for the completely
- |> unbundled version. In each case, the vendor gets exactly the same thing: the
- |> right to preinstall DOS and Windows on his machines and provide a book that he
- |> gets to have printed of OS documentation.
- |>
- |> This would be a prime case of MS forcing vendors to sell DOS and Windows with
- |> each machine, whether or not the customer wants or needs it.
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- Microsoft owns Windows. That means that if you want a copy, you've got to
- do it on their terms. You may not like their terms, but the world doesn't
- owe you the kind of terms you want.
-
- |> (I can hear the
- |> cries now: "But they're not holding a gun to their head!"...to which I answer
- |> that force can be economic as well as physical.)
-
- For the life of me, I can't understand why someone would use the word "force"
- to describe what is going on. If someone offers me a deal which will put
- more money in my pocket and I accept it, have I been "forced?" Economic
- "force" means that I get richer if I comply--physical force means that I
- get my brains blown out if I don't comply. Dudes, the difference couldn't
- be greater.
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