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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.054341.3666@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec30.201544.27892@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8261@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec31.033739.1912@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8271@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:43:41 GMT
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- In article <8271@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- |> 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.".
-
- OK, I'll play along for a minute. If Microsoft _did_ "force" the cloners
- to change their names to "Microsoft Computers, Inc." in order to sell MS-DOS
- would that make their liscenses all of a sudden "unsleazy" in your eyes?
- If Microsoft offered the cloners the same deal as McDonald's did to its
- franchisee's would you be satisfied?
-
- |> Next? Or are you going to actuially argue the issue of MS' sleazy practices
- |> for once?
-
- I don't see them as being any "sleazier" than McDonald's practices--in fact
- the agreements which Microsoft offers are much less exclusive than what
- Microsoft offers--therefore if its OK for McDonald's to do what they do it is
- even more OK for Microsoft to do what they do.
-