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  2. From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  4. Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
  5. Message-ID: <8318@lib.tmc.edu>
  6. Date: 4 Jan 1993 21:18:46 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan4.005008.13699@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8305@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan4.204009.25416@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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  13. In article <1993Jan4.204009.25416@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
  14. >A company can't put another company out of business.  Only a company's
  15. >_customers_ can either keep it in business or put it out.
  16.  
  17. Sure it can. To extend the metaphor, the customers are the bullets for the
  18. company's economic gun. It's happened before, and it will happen again unless
  19. the FTC stops them.
  20. -- 
  21. Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
  22. jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
  23.       "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
  24.               -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
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