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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.051035.5065@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:10:35 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <8236@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.224332.15462@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8238@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8238@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >
- >You're once again missing the point: if MS sells me Windows for $8 if I agree
- >to pay for a copy for every machine I sell, but triples the price if I don't,
- >then that's force. I have no economically sound choice but to give in to their
- >extortion; after all, the alternative is a tripled cost and the likelihood
- >that they'll sue me to death if they can find an excuse - like, say, they
- >think (independent of reality) that I've shipped copies I haven't paid for;
- >the cost of the litigation and audits alone could ruin a company...
-
- So now you've resorted to inventing your own "sleazy, monopolistic,
- anti-competitive practices"? Please cite a single case in which
- Microsoft has brought wrongful prosecution against _anyone_.
-
- -Phil
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- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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