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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: <1992Dec31.172417.28455@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> <1992Dec31.033739.1912@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:24:17 GMT
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- In <1992Dec31.033739.1912@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
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- >In article <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.
-
- >*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?
-
- But Microsoft isn't claiming to run a franchise business, and I
- seriously doubt that a lot of dealers would be willing to become
- Microsoft franchises, no matter if they actually DO sell DOS with
- every machine. In other words, this isn't even close to being the
- same thing. If you can't come up with germane analogies, perhaps you
- shouldn't bother. Or perhaps you are incorrect?
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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