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- From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1i911fINNn2m@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 09:46:23 GMT
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- thayne@unislc.uucp (Thayne Forbes) writes:
- >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.
-
- Note that I didn't mention Microsoft. This thread seems to have split into
- several discussions:
-
- (1) Has Microsoft violated antitrust law?
-
- (2) Is there any need for antitrust law if we want efficient markets,
- or will markets always get there themselves? (This is the branch
- my post was on.)
-
- (3) Does Microsoft suck?
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- (4) Is Microsoft the last hope against the Japanese?
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- (5) And how about those Russians and Indians?
-
- (6) There is no topic six.
-
- (7) Is it DR's fault when DR-DOS diverges from MS-DOS, or is it
- Microsoft's fault for not following their own specifications?
-
- --Tim Smith
-