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  1. Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.advocacy:11133 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:3525
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  3. From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
  5. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.235134.23000@tc.cornell.edu>
  7. Date: 29 Dec 92 23:51:34 GMT
  8. References: <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> <wiegand.725655487@lido16>
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  14. In article <wiegand.725655487@lido16> motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net writes:
  15. >bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
  16.  
  17. >Oh please - you can't really believe Microsoft would be selling their
  18. >software cleaply if there was no competition. Microsoft - like any other
  19. >company - will charge as much as they can for their products. If you
  20. >eliminate their competitors their prices would go up *fast*.
  21.  
  22. What you dont realize, of course, are all the "hidden competition". 
  23. That is, all those who will try to become a competition if MS raises
  24. its prices too high. Just take a look at what happened to Intel with
  25. the advent of Cyrix & AMD. 
  26.  
  27. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  28. >Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
  29. >motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net            uunet!motcid!wiegand
  30. >Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
  31.  
  32. Dov
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