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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: <1992Dec31.172645.28538@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec30.180456.26228@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8251@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec30.202102.27980@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8262@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec31.034703.2036@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:26:45 GMT
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- In <1992Dec31.034703.2036@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
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- >In article <8262@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- >|> You cut out the part where I explained the difference: MS isn't selling
- >|> anything that gains from being shipped just in time. Your analogy is fatally
- >|> flawed.
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- >I appologize if I cut out something vital to your argument. I've tried to
- >scrupulously include everything. Mea Culpa.
-
- >|> Further, I've worked for manufacturers who practiced Just in Time inventory
- >|> control without depending on a sole source for the items purchased. That is
- >|> not a central feature of the technique.
-
- >No sole sourcing isn't a vital feature of the technique, but a JIT inventory
- >control agreement between you and a supplier does put a new upstart supplier
- >at a "competitive disadvangage". My point wasn't that Microsoft is practicing
- >JIT, my point (which admittadly was badly worded) was that _if_ a business
- >agrees to have a single source for a component, often the supplier of that
- >component can agree to offer it for a much reduced price, especially in
- >the context of a long-term JIT type of arrangement, because they know that
- >they will have a steady and stable customer. _That_ of agreement between
- >a customer and a supplier is, as you say, "A Good Thing", and shouldn't be
- >made illegal no matter if the supplier is Ace nuts & bolts or Microsoft.
-
- Your misconception of JIT results in a VOLUME-BASED discount. This is
- legitimate. What MS does isn't, because the volume of MS product you
- 'receive' and 'ship' is irrelevant. It is YOUR product that the
- royalty is based on, with accepting THAT royalty arrangement as the
- justification for the price break.
-
- Since it is not volume based (on the MS product), it is predatory in
- that it creates an artificial barrier to entry. Note that
- *ARTIFICIAL* is part of that requirement.
-
- --
- "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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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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