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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.004352.29449@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec31.040712.3797@microsoft.com> <8285@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan4.002428.13319@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:43:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.002428.13319@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <8285@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >|> In article <1992Dec31.040712.3797@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >|> > Jay, this tactic of branding everyone who doesn't agree with you
- >|> >as "trying to work for MS" is getting really tiresome. If you can't
- >|> >address the points made in the posts, why bother to post this kind
- >|> >of drivel?
-
-
- Agreed--it's just plain stupid.
-
-
-
- >|> Because I cannot fathom why someone would leap to the defense of sucvh
- >|> obviously bad, monopolistic practices as MS engages in unless there's
- >|> something in it for them. You're hardly an unbiased judge of the situation.
-
-
- The only clearly anti-competitive practices that MS has attempted
- to engage in was the DRDOS6/Win31 problem, which was a simple
- fix (MSwindows looked for DRDOS and wouldn't run with it. There
- was no *compatibility* problem.)
-
- This nonsense about the "all for all" contracts that bill
- companies for all of machines sold are *possibly* anti-competitive,
- but VOLUME DISCOUNTS are not.
-
- Just so I know, all of you people who are out there blasting
- MS--what do you think of Intel's kickback that they give companies
- for advertising Intel Inside? It effectively reduces the cost of the
- company's advertising enough that the price difference between
- Intel chips and AMD/Cyrix chips is little enough that companies
- just go with Intel.
-
-
-
- >Remember the statement "when they came for me, there was nobody left to
- >stand up for anybody?" Its in _everybody's_ best interest that the goverment
- >stays out of the marketplace.
-
-
- What a mangled rendition/simplification of the quote. Still,
- it sort of applies.
-
-
-
- --
- Blaming "society" for your problems is like blaming clouds for rain.
- --- boycott == coercion == censorship == closed mindedness == cowardice ---
- "Psalms 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."
- Shepherds are for sheep. ----- Pain teaches.
-