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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- Date: 30 Dec 1992 19:38:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.185608.26764@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >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.
-
- Why, from your writings, I would have expected you to be a true Libertarian,
- and thus to recognize that economic force can be just as, if not more,
- damaging to a corporation than physical force. Once again, for the
- comprehension impaired: Force does not have to be physical.
-
- >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.
-
- As things stand, though, competitors are locked out because they clone vendors
- would still have to pay MS a royalty for those machines that went out the door
- with another product installed.
-
- If American business and government would stop litigating, we'd be truly
- overrun by the MSes of the world, just waiting to pounce on any opportunity to
- become a monopoly.
- --
- 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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