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- From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 19:31:41 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- References: <1992Dec30.153554.8759@tc.cornell.edu> <8243@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec30.180456.26228@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.180456.26228@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- |What Microsoft is doing with the clone makers is really just another example
- |of the trendy new concept in purchasing called "Just in time" purchasing. The
- |idea is that instead of having 3 or 4 suppliers for one of your components,
- |you form a long-term relationship with a trusted supplier who will be
- |your only
- |source. You save money because instead of having to keep an inventory of
- |all of your supplies you're supplier will ship to you exactly what you need
- |exactly when you need it.
- |
- |This "just in time" is spreading like wildfire because it saves money
- |and makes
- |manufacturers more efficient. EVERYBODY is doing it, not just Microsoft.
-
- Gee, and exactly what is MS delivering "just in time"? Permission to
- copy? I don't feel this argument is valid because nothing is being
- delivered.
- -- Bruce
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- Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
- bdubbs@neuron.tamu.edu | Honest Politician, Political Science,
- | Scrupulous Lawyer
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