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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.012301.29017@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 01:23:01 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.003455.13434@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8296@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan4.202757.24933@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8315@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8315@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- |> There's a continuum of interests; becoming a Microsoft franchisee, and
- |> becoming subject to all kinds of rules about how they can do business laid
- |> down in Redmond, is something no vendor would subject himself to unless there
- |> was no alternative. The current situation is nowhere near that bad for a
- |> vendor; it's MS' competition, and the consumers, that are getting screwed and
- |> not even kissed.
-
- Mearly stating that they are getting screwed isn't proof that they are.
- Nobody has said how the consumers are getting screwed now--the only thing
- mentioned is some vague suppositions about how its "in the future" that
- they will get screwed when it supposedly will raise prices. This is all
- supposition.
-
- As far as Microsoft's competition getting screwed, well, if my software was
- selling 2 million copies a year like OS/2 is, Microsoft can screw me all day
- long! And if I made as much money as Novell did off of Netware, Microsoft
- could screw me all night long.
-
- |> >_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.
- |>
- |> True, as far as that statement goes; it's possible, though, for a company to
- |> get to a point where the forces of the free market cannot restrain them.
-
- Another unsubstantiated supposition. Must we repeat the "name that monopoly"
- thread?
-