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- From: sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <C074A6.DGA@csulb.edu>
- Organization: Cal State Long Beach
- References: <1992Dec27.035536.7481@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzwwrn.8uM@csulb.edu> <1992Dec29.013546.3647@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:10:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.013546.3647@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <Bzwwrn.8uM@csulb.edu>, sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- >
- >|> You are a master at raising straw-man issues. Absolutely nobody is
- >|> trying to stop MS from selling its 'wares. The issue is whether MS
- >|> treats its distributors and other sellers fairly and equally and
- >|> uses practices consistent with US law.
- >
- >What is "fair and equal?" If the answer is "whatever is consistent with US
- >law" then at one time slavery was "fair".
- >
- >Can you be more specific as to what is fair and why Microsoft isn't?
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- Other posters to this thread have recounted the *accusations* against
- MS's sales practices. They remain to be proven and judged. And US anti-
- trust laws adequately define the limits of what is considered fair in
- the marketplace and it is my this standard that MS will be judged. It
- may indeed be true that slavery was, by legal standards of the time,
- fair in some arcane sense. I was making a legal claim, however, not a
- moral one so the analogy is inappropriate.
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- >|> the concept of 'agreed price'
- >|> becomes somewhat hollow if coercion is involved.
- >
- >Indeed. However, the only coercion going on here is what the FTC is about
- >to do to Microsoft. What goes on between Microsoft and its customers is
- >voluntary, not coerced.
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- I see, you have been a party to the negotiations and have seen the terms
- and conditions of the contracts. What, no ? then you perhaps are making
- speculations and assumptions like the rest of us instead of speaking from
- facts.
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- Jeff Sicherman
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