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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.203130.10532@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- 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> <1992Dec31.172417.28455@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:31:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.172417.28455@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- |> In <1992Dec31.033739.1912@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- |>
- |> >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.
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- What does it matter whether its called a "franchise" or a "exclusive
- brand burger reselling operation?"
-
- |> In other words, this isn't even close to being the
- |> same thing.
-
- But it is quite close. Microsoft offers cloners a deal which shares many of
- the same properties as the deal that McDonald's offers its franchees--a
- steep discount on beef in exchange selling burgers which only have McDonald's
- beef installed is quite similar to a steep discount on Windows for selling
- only machines with Windows installed.
-