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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:01:13 GMT
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- In article <C0CpF5.DrD@cs.uiuc.edu>, wang@cs.uiuc.edu (Eric Wang) writes:
- |> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- |> >The fact is that if McDonald's has the right to refuse to sell to
- |> >anybody who won't just sell exclusivly McBurgers then Microsoft has the
- |> >right to offer discounts to anybody willing to sell Windows
- |> >exclusively.
- |>
- |> Bad analogy, doesn't fit.
-
- You're about the 5th to call it an analogy, and I never meant it as one.
-
- |> If vendor X decided to become a "Microsoft
- |> franchise" (let's assume for now that such a thing even exists), and
- |> thereby to go by the name of Microsoft and sell ONLY Microsoft products
- |> straight from Redmond (albeit with on-site copying and bundling :-)),
- |> then anything Microsoft requires vendor X to do as part of its franchise
- |> license would be OK. But for all X, vendor X is NOT calling itself
- |> "Microsoft", and it dang well does sell things that do NOT originate in
- |> Redmond, namely computer systems.
-
-
- OK, let me get this straight--you would have no objection if Microsoft
- exercied EVEN MORE controll over the cloners than they do now, and you
- would have no objection if Microsoft didn't controll them at all. Its
- just this intermediate level of control that you have an objection to?
-
- |> Microsoft's only relationship with X
- |> is as a supplier of a system component, not as a controlling
- |> corporation. In that light, I'd say Microsoft is overstepping its
- |> bounds when it tries to levy its royalty on systems that don't include
- |> its components.
-
- I don't like it any more than you do. But I'm not setting either myself
- or the FTC or the Federal Goverment up as God to tell Microsoft and the
- Clones how they should sleep together. Just because I don't like what
- someone is doing doesn't mean that I should be able to force them to stop
- doing it.
-
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