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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 4 Jan 1993 15:45:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.002059.13213@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >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.
-
- Let's try a slight modification: The next time I need screws, I order the same
- quantity from _both_ suppliers. I try the screws from 2 Guys Garage. If they
- work out, I switch; if not, I go back to the case I have in stock from ACME.
- (Not palletloads, but whatever quantity I need right then.) One of the things
- about business is that you have to take risks in order to gain; in this case,
- we're balancing the risk of 2 Guys Garage not working out, and causing a short
- drop in production, against the tremendous savings that they can provide if it
- does work out.
-
- >No amount of federal regulation is going wipe out the tremendous competative
- >advantage that ACME has over 2-Guys-Garage.
-
- Only to a businessman too stupid to work it out properly.
-
- >When will the human race learn that FREEDOM WORKS. Let people live their own
- >lives and make their own agreements.
-
- The problem is that the logical conclusion of this agreement is a requirement
- that I buy a machine with DOS and Windows, which I neither need nor want.
-
- >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.
-
- MS has a near-monopoly, and are doing all they can, legitimately and
- otherwise, to reinforce it. You hold that up as the Holy Grail. I say it's bad
- for the consumer.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
- -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
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