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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.002059.13213@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec30.202102.27980@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8262@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec31.034703.2036@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8284@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:20:59 GMT
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- In article <8284@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec31.034703.2036@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- |> >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".
- |>
- |> Not if it isn't a sole source agreement.
-
- Oh indeed it does though! Consider, you've been buying ACME screws for
- 10 years, and for 10 years not as single ACME screw has been out of spec.
- Moreover, ACME has always delivered on time.
-
- Not 2-Guys-Garage screws comes up to you and says "we'll sell you screws for
- a tenth of a cent less than ACME screws. You're our first customer, but
- hey, trust us!
-
- Now remember, because of your JIT agreements with ACME, even if you just order
- one trial case from 2-Guys-Garage and they turn out to be defective, you're
- whole line shuts down and you're factory workers cool their heels until because
- you've got no stock.
-
- No amount of federal regulation is going wipe out the tremendous competative
- advantage that ACME has over 2-Guys-Garage.
-
- |> No...sole source agreements are anticompetitive, and as such are Bad Things.
- |> Suppliers who agree to reduce prices if they're the sole source are trying to
- |> lock out other suppliers in the same market. There is no legitimate reason for
- |> a supplier to reduce his prices just because someone agrees not to buy a part
- |> from anyone else.
-
- Other people would say that there is no legitimate reason for businesses
- to be able to be open on Sunday. Other's would say that there's no
- legitimate reason to be Homosexual.
-
- When will the human race learn that FREEDOM WORKS. Let people live their own
- lives and make their own agreements.
-
- |> The PC operating system arena is an especially bad place for such things
- |> simply because of MS' monopoly position. They're simply trying to consolidate
- |> and enforce it with their mandatory per-system license.
-
- Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly position, and the very fact that they
- are trying so hard is proof that their competitors are strong enough to
- scare them.
-