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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.202757.24933@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec31.054341.3666@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8286@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan4.003455.13434@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8296@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:27:57 GMT
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- In article <8296@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan4.003455.13434@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- |> >You didn't answer the question! If the FCT rules against Microsoft and Microsoft
- |> >offers to change its ways by becomming like McDonalds, would you be satisfied?
- |>
- |> Sure. No supplier would go for it, and MS would fold up like a house of cheap
- |> cards.
-
- Wait a minute! I thought that Microsoft as a big evil monopoly could force
- them to do anything! The above statement is an admission that Microsoft
- can't force a vendor into doing anything which the vendor doesn't think is
- in his best interest.
-
- _Any_ company, be it Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, or Microsoft, will fold like
- a house of cheap cards if it doesn't offer its customers deals which they
- like. And the bigger they are the harder they fall.
-
- |> >I've lived in many southern Indiana towns where McDonald's has a monopoly in
- |> >the local fast food Market. Do you think that McDonald's is being "sleezy"
- |> >in those small towns by forcing them not to well Wendy's burgers? Should the
- |> >FTC force McDonalds in small towns to sell Kentucky Fried Chicken?
- |>
- |> McDonalds is protecting its trademarks from dilution by preventing those who
- |> have the rights to use them - its franchisees - from selling products that
- |> would confuse the public.
-
- How would that be any different than the "confusion" the average shopper
- must feel when going to K-mart and seeing both K-mart brand soap and
- Zest on the shelf? The fact is that I'm about to burst
-
- The fact is that if McDonald's has the right to refuse to sell to anybody who
- won't just sell exclusivly McBurgers then Microsoft has the right to offer
- discounts to anybody willing to sell Windows exclusively.
-