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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 20:47:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.201544.27892@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >I have ignored every argument based on name-calling--simply labeling something
- >"sleazy, underhanded, etc" doesn't make it so.
-
- ...but we've shown why it's sleazy and underhanded. You say there's a choice.
- Sure there is: it's a choice between paying a royalty for every machine and
- going out of business because MS charges quite a bit more for the privilege of
- not having to pay a royalty on every machine. Some choice.
-
- >Does your university give a volume discount for credits? Mine does. At
- >Purdue, You pay per credit hour until you reach 16 credits, and anything
- >above 16 is free.
-
- I don't know, actually; I'm a mainframe systems programmer, not a student.
-
- >They essentially have forced me into only taking credits from Purdue because
- >they won't count credits from other universities and I don't have the time
- >to study at more than one anyways.
- >Are they guilty of "sleazy, underhanded, anticompetitive practices?"
-
- If they don't accept credits from other places, then, yes, they're being
- anticompetitive - because they're denying you the opportunity to go take a
- course somewhere else for credit, even if they don't offer a similar course.
- --
- 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.
- "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
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