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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.015427.29632@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec21.233102.14676@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Dec22.060128.26352@nosc.mil> <wiegand.725663043@lido16> <1992Dec31.025922.23254@nosc.mil> <wiegand.726166042@lido16>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:54:27 GMT
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- In article <wiegand.726166042@lido16>, wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand) writes:
- |> discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes:
- |>
- |> >Ahhhh. But what the anti-agreement people are saying is that they DON'T want
- |> >MS-DOS installed. If the MAJORITY of people thought that way, then Joe
- |> >Vendor doesn't have to buy into the agreement--and sell his systems for
- |> >eight bucks cheaper than his competitors. The problem is, that the MAJORITY
- |> >of people WANT MS-DOS and Windows... which gives Microsoft the leverage it
- |> >needs to "sell" their package with every computer.
- |>
- |> That's just the point. The majority who want DOS gives Microsoft enough
- |> leverage that they can also force DOS on the minority who don't want it.
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- *sigh* you can buy a computer w/o Microsoft windows if you want. Nobody is
- "forced" into buying Windows.
-
- |> Maybe you think this is good, but I don't much like it.
-
- Hey, and the majority who wanted Intel architecture CPU's "forced" that on
- me too.
-