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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.212746.11677@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:27:46 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <BzMLLx.JtD@news.iastate.edu> <1992Dec21.213006.9278@nosc.mil> <1992Dec22.182937.2539@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.182937.2539@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
- >discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes:
- >
- >
- >Your argument is specious. I do not give a hoot if I can install another
- >OS. What I care about is that I have to pay for MS-DOS even if I do
- >not want it. Period. Why should I, the consumer, have to pay for
- >something I do not want?
-
- You shouldn't. That's the beauty of the marketplace - you
- don't have to buy from anyone who you don't like.
-
-
- > That is what MS's licensing terms to vendors
- >requires - ALL systems must be licensed for MS-DOS.
-
- Incorrect. Learn the facts, then come back.
-
-
- >>But regardless of this, the end user OWNs the computer. Microsoft (to
- >>my knowledge) does not have cameras that follow people around and tattle-tales
- >>when they uninstall DOS from the system; the operating system is hardly
- >>"forced" onto the buyer. "Installed" yes, "Forced" no.
- >
- >Ignorance is bliss? Who cares if they know what I do (I do care but
- >that is irrelevant). Should I be forced to pay for something even if
- >I do not want it?
-
- Unless someone is standing behind you with a gun, you probably
- aren't being forced to buy anything.
- I'm getting deja vu here - are we talking about CD-ROMs again?
-
-
- > Open up your eyes and read. This is probably the
- >10th post in this thread that has pointed out this problem - MS's
- >licensing agreement with vendors forces a situation where every box
- >must have an MS-DOS license EVEN IF MS-DOS is NEVER loaded on the
- >system.
-
- And it's the 10th post to be incorrect on this same point.
- Reading is well and good, but you have to make an informed choice
- on whether to believe what you read - in this case, you have bought
- into the (incorrect) anti-MS propaganda that Microsoft offers only
- a single exclusive contract. This is not true.
-
- -Phil
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