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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.104547.15635@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 10:45:47 GMT
- 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> <1992Dec3
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Doesn't Intel also try to sue them? And what about giving their new
- processors names so they can be protected under copyright laws?
- Thus, they are not only trying to compete on technical grounds, but
- on other, totally unrelated, grounds too. Not saying this is fair or
- not, it just shows the issue isn't quite as simple as it may look.
-
- Erik
-
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