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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.184138.23659@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec31.034703.2036@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8284@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan4.002059.13213@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8295@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:41:38 GMT
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- In article <8295@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- |> 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.
-
- As far as I've heard, even the most exclusive agreements that Microsoft offers
- allow for this. To parallel, suppose that a Clones-R-US decides to offer
- OS/2 to its customers on a trial basis. They simply order Windows from
- Microsoft pursuant to the agreement they have with them and a case of OS/2
- from IBM.
-
- |> I try the screws from 2 Guys Garage.
-
- Clones-R-US looks at the sales figures for OS/2 vs. Windows.
-
- |> If they work out, I switch;
-
- If enough of Clones-R-US customers like OS/2, then Clones offers OS/2.
-
- |> if not, I go back to the case I have in stock from ACME.
-
- If not, Clones-R-us sticks with the agreements it has with Microsoft.
-
- In conclusion, if a JIT agreement doesn't restrict a savy businessman from
- trying out new suppliers, than neither does the kind of agreements which
- Microsoft offers.
-
- |> >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.
-
- Righto!!! And just as a sufficiently JIT businessman not need the FTC to
- step in, neither does a sufficiently smark Cloner.
-
- |> >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.
-
- Get thee hence to reality forsooth!! Thou mayest buy Clones with OS/2 or
- UNIX preinstallethed!!!
-
- |> >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.
-
- Show me a consumer whose hurt.
-