home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!lib!oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu!jmaynard
- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <8271@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 04:23:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.201544.27892@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8261@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec31.033739.1912@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu
- Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston
- Lines: 22
- Nntp-Posting-Host: oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu
-
- In article <1992Dec31.033739.1912@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >*sigh* If you want to be a dealer of McDonald's burgers you have to sign a
- >deal with McDonald's not to sell Whoppers. Is McDonald's liscencing
- >agreements "sleezy and underhanded?" Is this "strongarming Wendy's out of
- >business?" Is this putting the Colonel at an "unfair competitive
- >disadvantage?" Should sheriff FTC round up a possie on the Ponderosa?
-
- YABA! (Yet another bogus analogy!)
-
- If you want to be a dealer of McDonald's burgers, you agree to represent
- yourself to the public as McDonald's. Selling a Whopper from a McDonald's
- restaurant would be extremely confusing to the public.
-
- In contrast, when Zeos agreed to bundle DOS and Windows with all machines they
- sold, they didn't magically become "Microsoft Computers, Inc.".
-
- Next? Or are you going to actuially argue the issue of MS' sleazy practices
- for once?
- --
- 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
-