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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 30 Dec 1992 18:28:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.175404.26069@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >Monopolies arn't necessarily a bad thing--for example, most people have no
- >beef against their water and electric utilities. What's bad is when a
- >monopoly tries to charge too high of prices.
-
- ...which is exactly what MS will do if they succeed in eliminating all their
- competition. Remember the $2600 MS-OS/2 SDK (which they then abandoned)?
-
- >And yes, MS is trying to grab as much market share as it can, but so is
- >IBM with OS/2, Apple with the Mac, Sun with Solaris, etc etc. EVERY company
- >in the world is trying to get as big a piece of the pie as they can.
-
- There's a difference between trying to grab a piece of the pie honestly and
- doing it by sleazy, underhanded, anticompetitive practices such as are MS'
- stock in trade.
-
- >*sigh* Dudes, offering two different choices to a buyer isn't force.
-
- Seriously, are you trying to go to work for MS? You've completely ignored all
- the arguments here that say that what MS is offering isn't a choice, it's a
- sham. They've apparently deluded you into thinking there's a choice.
-
- >I would advise you to look at the practices of your own company. You'll
- >probably find many many examples of where your company does the same thing.
-
- My university doesn't have practices, as I'm sure our students will attest.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
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