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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.213149.11846@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:31:49 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec23.043125.42912@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.043125.42912@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.214100.3695@nosc.mil>, discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes
- >>In article <1992Dec22.185305.59162@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (S
- >TACY JOHN BEHRENS) writes:
- >>>
- >>>Really? How many of these contracts have you seen? None would be a likely
- >>>guess. That said however, these contracts appear, from the outside at least
- >>>to be a bit more binding than that.
- >>
- >>One. I've reviewed the Multiple License Pack agreement, and subsequently
- >>
- >>How many have you reviewed?
- >
- >None, that should be obvious from my post. I said from the *outside*.
-
-
- Yet you continue to post voluminously about a subject on which
- you are admittedly ignorant. Amazing.
-
-
- >Not when Billy is creating the desire by trying to make certain that
- >absolutely everyone has a copy of Windows. OS/2 as of yet has been remarkable
- >in the amount of attention it has been getting considering how easy it is to
- >get Windows, even if you don't want it. People have this annoying tendancy to
- >consider whatever they have to be the best, and if Billy and Company make
- >certain that everyone has their system, a lot of folks are just simply going
- >to think it is the only system worth buying regardless of whether it is or
- >isn't.
-
- Even more amazing. So now making your product easily available
- is anti-competive? Should Microsoft require customers to walk a bed
- of hot coals before they can buy Windows?
-
-
- >>Well, sort of. The problem is really that not many people (at this time)
- >>really want OS/2... which is cheaper than the cost of DOS+Windows. To use
- >>your Standard Oil analogy, gas stations started turning to small
- >>comapnies such as Texaco for gas--severely cutting into Standard Oil's
- >>revenues.
- >
- >Exactly. But just because it is happening now doesn't mean that it is a
- >tactic that will continue to be successful. OS/2 has enough problems still
- >that it is possible, though not likely, that it could flop.
-
- True. Or it could succeed swimmingly. What does this have
- to do with the original topic?
-
-
- >>The same could happen with IBM and Microsoft--as long as IBM's "gas" is
- >>just as good as Microsoft's. The real question though, is this: "Is it?"
- >
- >I certainly think so, but MS is doing a good job of convincing people not to
- >try and find out for themselves.
-
- How so?
-
- -Phil
-
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- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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