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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: <1992Dec21.074803.1363@sequent.com> <1992Dec22.095022.21715@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <BzoytD.H4p@csulb.edu> <1992Dec23.144151.29932@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:15:38 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
-
- >In article <BzoytD.H4p@csulb.edu> sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
-
- >What you fail to understand is the psychology and actions of some
- >entrepreneurs. If you want to have successful entrepreneurs you have
- >to look at what drives them. Otherwise, they may just disappear. Maybe
- >you are not bothered by this, but many people do.
-
- >BG is not doing these things because he does not have enough money
- >for living. He does it because for him it is a game that _involves_
- >money. It is fun for him to develop new software. But to play
- >a game and enjoy it, you must have some fixed set of rules. Otherwise,
- >even playing chess would not be fun.
-
- The rules are fixed an BG broke them. The anti-trust laws have been around
- for a long time.
-
- >From a programmer's point of view there is no real separation between
- >applications & system software. Almost every application involve
- >some interaction with the system or system calls. This separation
- >exists only in the mind of the FTC. Now, when entrepreneurs start
-
- This seperation also exists in Microsoft advertising. *They* advertised
- DOS and Windows as being *open* systems with a *published* interface.
- They are the ones who claimed that they were opening up the interface
- so everyone could program to it. They lied.
-
- If they had claimed from the begining that it was a proprietary system
- there wouldn't be a problem, but they didn't. They said one thing and
- did another.
-
- >the game, they usually have some long-term goals. They dont know
- >ahead of time that some government committee is going to enter into
- >the picture later on and arbitrarily change the rules. If that
- >occurs too much in new areas they will simply not start to play
- >the game.
-
- Anyone who bothers to research corporate law knows the rules. Microsoft
- just thought they could get away with bending them. The fact that the
- FTC is invesigating them can't be a big supprise to them.
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
- motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net uunet!motcid!wiegand
- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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