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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.014925.29433@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- 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> <wiegand.726161691@lido16>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:49:25 GMT
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- In article <wiegand.726161691@lido16>, wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand) writes:
- |> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
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- |> >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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- If they want to be in business selling Microsoft products which Microsoft
- owns, they are going to have to do so on Microsoft terms.
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- Nobody has a "right" to buy something at any price they want to!
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- Any society which doesn't respect the rights of ownership is doomed.
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