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- From: thayne@unislc.uucp (Thayne Forbes)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.055153.9970@unislc.uucp>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:51:53 GMT
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- Tim Smith (tzs@stein.u.washington.edu) wrote:
- : > If they started charging outragious prices for drilling equiptment then
- : > someone else would start making drilling equiptment and get a piece of the
- : > action. The only way that I can imagine that Standard Oil could possibly
- : > have all of the drilling equiptment is for them to produce it cheaper than
- : > anyone else could, in which case who cares, or for them to use guns, either
- : > theirs or the goverments, to stop any competitors, in which case we've got
- : > a problem.
- :
- : Here's a third way for them to have all the drilling equipment: tell drilling
- : equipment customers that unless they purchase Standard Oil drilling equipment,
- : and do not purchase drilling equipment from others, they will no longer be
-
- Hold on Tim, Microsoft is not stopping Anybody from buying other products.
- I don't think anybody would even acuse them of that. That is not predatory
- trade practice. That is good old fashioned restraint of trade.
-
- Perhaps we should back up a little bit, and see if anyone has a specific
- example of the above before we get too outrageous.
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- Thayne Forbes
- thayne@unislc.slc.unisys.com
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