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- From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 05:04:32 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- References: <1992Dec29.225839.15668@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1hsujcINNjrq@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Dec31.032124.1762@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.032124.1762@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- |In article <1hsujcINNjrq@tamsun.tamu.edu>, bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
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- ||> |With OS/2 and NeXTSTEP (both of which can run DOS _and_ Windows programs)
- ||> |Solaris, and Pink, I don't think Microsoft has faced as many competitors
- ||> |in its history.
- ||>
- ||> Agreed. Thats why MS wants to go back to the bad old days.
- |
- |So basically Microsoft is being forced into lower prices because of
- |competition in the marketplace. Things are working as they should.
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- You still don't get it. As soon as the competitors are forced to
- liquidate, the prices go up. The best way for things to proceed as
- they are with competitive prices is to ensure the competition remains
- viable.
-
- I don't want MS to control. I don't want IBM to control. I don't
- want one of the Unix variants to control. I want them all to exist.
- If the government waits until a virtual monopoly exits, it will be a
- *lot* more difficult to inject competition. The startup costs are so
- large that a new effective competitor would take years (and
- protection) to establish.
-
- Its a delicate balance. How much control should the government
- establish? We really don't want to let the big guy (guys) use their
- size to prevent the little guys from getting started, but we also want
- to see the big guys employ a lot of people and get a reasonable return
- on their investment.
-
- Size is power. Power Corrupts. Absolute Power Absolutely Corrupts.
- There must be some external control.
- -- Bruce
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- Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
- bdubbs@neuron.tamu.edu | Honest Politician, Political Science,
- | Scrupulous Lawyer
-