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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 20:49:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.202102.27980@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >I'm glad you agree that it is a Good Thing. But will you agree that the kind
- >of deals which are cut between the supplier and customer of physical
- >inventory arn't any less "anticompetitive" than are the deals which Microsoft
- >cuts with the cloners? Are you in favor of the FTC outlawing Just In Time
- >inventory control?
-
- You cut out the part where I explained the difference: MS isn't selling
- anything that gains from being shipped just in time. Your analogy is fatally
- flawed.
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- Further, I've worked for manufacturers who practiced Just in Time inventory
- control without depending on a sole source for the items purchased. That is
- not a central feature of the technique.
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