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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.171542.4145@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <Bzn0EI.D2w@csulb.edu> <1992Dec22.040237.14440@tc.cornell.edu> <wiegand.725655487@lido16> <1992Dec29.235134.23000@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:15:42 GMT
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- In <1992Dec29.235134.23000@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
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- >In article <wiegand.725655487@lido16> motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net writes:
- >>bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
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- >>Oh please - you can't really believe Microsoft would be selling their
- >>software cleaply if there was no competition. Microsoft - like any other
- >>company - will charge as much as they can for their products. If you
- >>eliminate their competitors their prices would go up *fast*.
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- >What you dont realize, of course, are all the "hidden competition".
- >That is, all those who will try to become a competition if MS raises
- >its prices too high. Just take a look at what happened to Intel with
- >the advent of Cyrix & AMD.
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- Yeah. They found lots of work for their corporate legal staff suing
- Cyrix and AMD.
-
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- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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