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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
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- Date: 5 Jan 1993 15:36:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.011546.28910@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >?? Microsoft computers ?? You mean Clones?
-
- No, Microsoft computers. What? You mean Microsoft doesn't build computers? My
- point exactly:
-
- >My example about not being able
- >to buy a PS/2 without OS/2 I think is germain. Is IBM as guilty as Microsoft
- >in your eyes?
-
- No, because IBM (and HP, and Sun, and...) builds computers. Microsoft doesn't.
- IBM can put whatever it wants on IBM computers; that's one basis for
- competition. Gateway 2000 can choose to put MS-DOS and Windows on all their
- computers if they wish, but it's not right for MS to force them to...yet
- that's exactly what's happening.
-
- >Of course. But he doesn't have the right to do it at any arbitrary price
- >he wants. In a just and fair society, if you want something that someone
- >else has, you're going to have to cut a voluntary deal with them.
-
- True. The problem is the coercive nature of the deal MS wants you to cut with
- them.
-
- >That's like saying that I'm trying to exercise undue control over a house
- >I didn't build when I forbid you from filling your living room with my
- >furniture. If you want my furniture you'll have to buy it from me--and
- >if I say that you must fill every room with my furniture or I won't sell it
- >too you that's my business, not the FTC's.
-
- No, that's restraint of trade, and coercion, and wrong, and illegal.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
- -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
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