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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.185608.26764@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:56:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.205556.10155@microsoft.com> <8239@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec30.162838.9739@tc.cornell.edu> <8244@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8244@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec30.162838.9739@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- |> >From the above I conclude that you think that force is a bad thing.
- |> >After a zillion of postings claiming that there is nothing wrong
- |> >with force, and therefore everything is fine with the FTC forcing
- |> >MS to change its marketing, I becoming a little confused.
- |>
- |> It's OK for the FTC to force MS to change its marketing because this is force
- |> in response to force...our net.libertarians will universally agree that the
- |> initiation of force is wrong, but using force in response to someone else's
- |> first use of force is good and necessary. MS initiated the use of force.
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- Why anyone would put charging $8 for Windows in the same league with
- pointing a gun at Microsoft is beyond me. Its a downright Orwellian
- perversion of the language to use the same word "force" to describe
- both actions.
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- A legitimate action against Microsoft would be for its competitors to offer
- the same deal to the clone makers, or a better deal. If American business
- and government would stop litigating and start competing we would see a new day.
-