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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.202937.24995@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <8285@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan4.002428.13319@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan4.004352.29449@wam.umd.edu> <8297@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:29:37 GMT
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- In article <8297@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- |> 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.
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- They are trivially connected with volume--maximal possible volume gives you
- the maximal possible discount.
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