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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.021644.23680@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec23.013422.24038@sequent.com> <BzpBH3.Los@csulb.edu> <1992Dec28.231337.1515@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <C073ME.D5I@csulb.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:16:44 GMT
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- In article <C073ME.D5I@csulb.edu>, sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
- |> >The reason Microsoft is still around is good business, plain and simple.
- |>
- |> You don't read very carefully.
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- Wait a minute! Just because I don't agree with the post I'm replying to
- doesn't mean that I didn't read it carefully!
-
- |> I agree that the reason that they are
- |> around and doing well is the way the company is run. But the reason that
- |> they are the size they are and bestride the market to the extent that
- |> they do is that they were the sole source for a virtually essential
- |> component of all he microcomputer systems being sold, and one with a very
- |> low per unit distribution cost and essentially no need for marketing
- |> (because of its essential and often built-in nature). Plenty of companies
- |> can be well run but without a blockbuster product that the market *needs*
- |> they wouldn't succeed as MS has done.
-
- I've carefully read the above, and I see where you're comming from, but
- it won't wash because you can think of lots of counter examples.
- Digital research was the sole supplier of CP/M--a "virtually essential
- component" of all 8080 systems being sold. Why didn't Digital Research
- grow to be as big as Microsoft?
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