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- From: deweeset@ptolemy3.rdrc.rpi.edu (Thomas E. DeWeese)
- Subject: Re: Mac OS on PC
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <Nazedgi-191292222643@stiles-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> <BzMIu1.H4F@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec22.030801.21693@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:47:47 GMT
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- >It seem that MS is guilty of the charge of not fully documenting Windows.
- >But I'm not sure that this should be considered non-competitive behavior.
- >Although MS is powerful, they are not powerful enough that there are
- >substancial barriers to entry in either applications or operating systems
- >software markets.
- >Rob
- >[ rmah@panix.com | every moment a challenge." ]
-
- Well my understanding of the situation is that they have done all of the
- above. The basic idea of the FREE trade system is that the _consumer_ will
- benifit from an open market.
- This has stopped happening in the IBM software market. There are two
- "rumors" I have heard which, if true (which really is for a court of law
- to decide), mean that MS is no longer compeating in a free market enviorment.
- the two things I have heard are:
-
- 1). There were several parts to Windows 3 that were left out so that they
- could later introduce upgrades (in a free market system they should have
- to put out the best product they can in order to compete).
-
- 2). All of MS's Windows apps are designed so that they will NOT run on any
- other OS other than MS Windows. This is a move that will strongly affect
- sails of other OS's. But in a free market they should be interested in
- having there programs sell as widely as possible (this may be related to
- confict of interests). BTW what I mean by they will not run on any other OS
- is not that they won't run under Mac OS, but that systems that attempt to
- simulate Windows will not be able to run MS applications. A good example
- is OS/2. Virtually every non-MS application runs, but virtual no MS apps
- run.
-
- Now I can't prove either one of these (if I could I would be in court
- right now). But if they do turn out to be true, I believe that it is in
- the general publics best interest to split up the company. Much more so
- than splitting up MaBell.
- Thomas DeWeese
- deweeset@rdrc.rpi.edu
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