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- From: discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.025922.23254@nosc.mil>
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
- References: <1992Dec21.233102.14676@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Dec22.060128.26352@nosc.mil> <wiegand.725663043@lido16>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:59:22 GMT
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- In article <wiegand.725663043@lido16> motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net writes:
- >discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes:
- >
- >>WRONG! I can't believe that people actually post such inane ideas.
- >>The agreement is like: if Joe's Clone shop ships 1000 boxes a month, Joe could
- >>ship 'em with 1000 copies of MS-DOS for $8, or he could choose NOT to
- >>abide by the agreement and purchase MS-DOS for $24 apiece.
- >
- >And Joe Clone would go out of business. With the small mark-up on PC clones
- >they can't just add $16 to their cost. To stay price competitive with
- >the other clone makers they *have to* accept the $8 offer. It sounds like
- >they have a choice, but the only real choice is to go out of business.
- >
- >Thats the reality of the situation and Microsoft knows it. No one in
- >their right mind would agree to Microsoft's terms if they had any real
- >choice. A coice between doing it Microsoft's way or going out of business
- >isn't much of a choice.
-
- Ahhhh. But what the anti-agreement people are saying is that they DON'T want
- MS-DOS installed. If the MAJORITY of people thought that way, then Joe
- Vendor doesn't have to buy into the agreement--and sell his systems for
- eight bucks cheaper than his competitors. The problem is, that the MAJORITY
- of people WANT MS-DOS and Windows... which gives Microsoft the leverage it
- needs to "sell" their package with every computer.
-
- Mind you, they cannot "force" a user to use MS-DOS and Windows; it is
- physically impossible to do so.
-
- >
- >--
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
- >motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net uunet!motcid!wiegand
- >Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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