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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.083306.4893@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <47830@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:33:06 GMT
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- In article <47830@ogicse.ogi.edu>, francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes) writes:
- |> ]If you want to sell McDonald's hamburgers you'll have to sign an agreement that
- |> ]you won't sell Wendy's frosties from the same place. Is McDonald's using
- |> ]"force" or anticompetitive activities here to establish domination of the
- |> ]fast food industry? Please!!!!
- |>
- |> Please yourself! I can't just _decide_ to sell McDonald's hamburgers.
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- Of course not! But by the same token, you can't just _decide_ to sell Windows
- either.
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- You have to get Microsoft to agree to sell you Windows first. And just as
- McDonald's can write as exclusive a contract as it wants with its franchises,
- so also Microsoft can write as an exclusive a contract with the cloners.
-