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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.012932.17426@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- 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> <wiegand.725667587@lido16>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:29:32 GMT
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- In article <wiegand.725667587@lido16>, wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand) writes:
- |> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- |>
- |> >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.
-
- Hmmmmnnn....that didn't seem to discourage AMD and Cyrix from entering the
- 80386 clone market. Intel could drive them out of business mearly by selling
- their processors below cost, but apparently they're more interested in
- making money than losing it. Also, Intel is competing with them on technical
- grounds--they are doubling the speed of new processor developement.
-