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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <8194@lib.tmc.edu> <21DEC199210203176@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1992Dec21.153800.2223@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1992Dec21.225330.14706@nosc.mil> <1992Dec21.184359.9551@iscsvax.uni.edu> <1992Dec22.104711.22331@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:19:47 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec21.184359.9551@iscsvax.uni.edu>, brackin5483@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- >|> I got one question. When Windows becomes the only operating system out there(
- >|> according to Bill) and Microsoft drives everyone else producing Windows
- >|> softwere in to bankruptcy. Then what will happen to prices of operating
- >|> systems and application software, once Microsoft has established a monopoly?
-
- >OK, worst case scenario--Bill Gates drives every single OS vendor right into
- >the ground. Windows rules forever in a brave new world of point and click right?
-
- >The minute that Microsoft starts charging more for Windows than it would
- >cost for someone else to write a clone or a competing OS Microsoft would
- >have competetors again.
-
- Not if the other companies know that as soon as their new OS hit the
- markets MS would drop their prices until the new company went broke.
- You don't enter a fight where you know the other guy is bigger and stronger
- than you and will pound you into the ground.
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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