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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!news.cs.indiana.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ecn.purdue.edu!helz
  4. From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
  5. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.233217.16168@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
  7. Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
  8. Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
  9. References: <BzLMIH.II3@csulb.edu> <1992Dec21.145115.25441@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> <wiegand.725655487@lido16>
  10. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:32:17 GMT
  11. Lines: 20
  12.  
  13. In article <wiegand.725655487@lido16>, wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand) writes:
  14.  
  15. |> >If MS is capable of keeping prices down for the customer, why
  16. |> >should _they_ be penalized and not the less efficient companies ? 
  17. |> 
  18. |> Oh please - you can't really believe Microsoft would be selling their
  19. |> software cleaply if there was no competition.
  20.  
  21. Competition is _exactly_ why they are selling so cheap.  That's why 
  22. for the life of me I can't understand why the low prices are being 
  23. called "anticompetative."
  24.  
  25. |> Microsoft - like any other
  26. |> company - will charge as much as they can for their products. If you
  27. |> eliminate their competitors their prices would go up *fast*.
  28.  
  29. Sure they would--and competitors would reemerge just as fast.  Sure I know
  30. that operating systems are big complex pieces of software and that it takes
  31. time to write them but it would happen and businesses would simply move
  32. to the Mac or to RISC workstations.
  33.