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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 15:53:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.004352.29449@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- > 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.)
-
- Tell that to Phil Lafornara. He's called it unfounded.
-
- > 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.
-
- The problem is that clone makers' discounts for paying a royalty for MS-DOS
- and Windows for every machine they ship are in no way connected with the
- volume.
-
- > 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.
-
- Advertising coop money is a long-time, completely above-board practice. After
- all, Intel gets bennefit from that advertising, so why shouldn't they pay for
- that benefit? If the effect were what you claim, then nobody would be buying
- AMD or Cyrix, and that's patently false...
- --
- 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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