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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 15:39:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.012301.29017@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >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.
-
- People who don't want or need licenses for MS-DOS and Windows are being forced
- to pay for them anyway.
-
- >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.
-
- Just wait until they achieve the monopoly position that they want and you seem
- to believe is their moral right. Then watch everyone get screwed.
-
- >Another unsubstantiated supposition. Must we repeat the "name that monopoly"
- >thread?
-
- No, since you apparently refuse to accept the common definition of "monopoly".
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- 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.
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- -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
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