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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.025456.1493@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:54:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.035807.76425@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Dec29.001528.2087@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.184617.11527@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec29.222902.15267@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec30.175247.5017@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.175247.5017@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- |> >The difference could not be greater. If you refuse to buy a copy of Windows 3.x
- |> >nobody will point a gun at your head and make you. Try refusing to
- |> >obey a law--you'll be eyeball to eyeball with a man with a gun.
- |>
- |> And try refusing Microsoft's kind offer as a small systems reseller
- |> and you'll be out of business. Gee, no coersion there; you can play
- |> their way, be big enough to hit back, or not play at all.
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- If you want to sell McDonald's hamburgers you'll have to sign an agreement that
- you won't sell Wendy's frosties from the same place. Is McDonald's using
- "force" or anticompetitive activities here to establish domination of the
- fast food industry? Please!!!!
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