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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <wiegand.726161691@lido16>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Dec20.193959.250@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <wiegand.725577960@lido16> <1992Dec29.172229.3466@microsoft.com> <8236@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.224332.15462@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:34:51 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
-
- >For the life of me, I can't understand why someone would use the word "force"
- >to describe what is going on. If someone offers me a deal which will put
- >more money in my pocket and I accept it, have I been "forced?" Economic
- >"force" means that I get richer if I comply--physical force means that I
- >get my brains blown out if I don't comply. Dudes, the difference couldn't
- >be greater.
-
- Computer hardware is *very* cost sensitive. There is very little difference
- between brand A hardware and brand B hardware. People (for the most part)
- buy based on cost. For a hardware vendor saving a few dollars on product
- cost may be the difference between making a profit and going out of
- business. This isn't just a matter of making a few extra dollars for them.
- This is a matter of survival for them. Under these condition it's quite
- possible to *force* them to do something.
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
- motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net uunet!motcid!wiegand
- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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