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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.170424.28146@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec30.175404.26069@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8248@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec30.201544.27892@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8261@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:04:24 GMT
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- In <8261@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec30.201544.27892@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >>I have ignored every argument based on name-calling--simply labeling something
- >>"sleazy, underhanded, etc" doesn't make it so.
-
- >...but we've shown why it's sleazy and underhanded. You say there's a choice.
- >Sure there is: it's a choice between paying a royalty for every machine and
- >going out of business because MS charges quite a bit more for the privilege of
- >not having to pay a royalty on every machine. Some choice.
-
- >>Does your university give a volume discount for credits? Mine does. At
- >>Purdue, You pay per credit hour until you reach 16 credits, and anything
- >>above 16 is free.
-
- >I don't know, actually; I'm a mainframe systems programmer, not a student.
-
- >>They essentially have forced me into only taking credits from Purdue because
- >>they won't count credits from other universities and I don't have the time
- >>to study at more than one anyways.
- >>Are they guilty of "sleazy, underhanded, anticompetitive practices?"
-
- >If they don't accept credits from other places, then, yes, they're being
- >anticompetitive - because they're denying you the opportunity to go take a
- >course somewhere else for credit, even if they don't offer a similar course.
-
- One point here, Jay. In order to be anticompetitive in the same way
- that MS is with their 'royalty for every machine shipped' scheme, his
- university would have to offer him the choice of a) paying much more
- for each class he took there if he also took classes at some other
- university as well, or b) paying his university for hours he took at
- ANY university, but at a reduced rate from what they would charge him
- otherwise.
-
- Now then, does anyone know of a university that acts like THAT? Case
- closed.
-
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