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  4. From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
  5. Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan4.183115.23500@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
  7. Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
  8. Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
  9. References: <1993Jan2.225225.7080@gw.wmich.edu> <1i75u6INNbe4@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan4.005008.13699@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1i9fgdINN2bu@shelley.u.washington.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:31:15 GMT
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  13. In article <1i9fgdINN2bu@shelley.u.washington.edu>, tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
  14. |> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
  15. |> |>Here's a third way for them to have all the drilling equipment: tell drilling
  16. |> |>equipment customers that unless they purchase Standard Oil drilling equipment,
  17. |> |>and do not purchase drilling equipment from others, they will no longer be
  18. |> |>sold oil from Standard Oil. If they control enough of the oil market (because
  19. |> |>they were more efficient than the competition, say), they could use that to
  20. |> |>dominate the drilling equipment market, even though they might not be more
  21. |> |>efficient there.
  22. |> |
  23. |> |Even in that case, the total cost to drilling equiptment users of oil +
  24. |> |drilling equiptment must be less than any anybody else could *possibly* do
  25. |> |it for Standard Oil to maintain its monopoly. 
  26. |> 
  27. |> Yes, but the cost of drilling equipment from someone else plus oil from
  28. |> Standard Oil would be less than the cost of buying both from Standard Oil.
  29.  
  30. Agreed--but Microsoft isn't doing anything remotely resembling this.
  31.  
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