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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.205503.11199@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:55:03 GMT
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- In article <8325@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- |> Ah, but, in that case, the customer doesn't care what screws are being used;
- |> as long as the product is held together, it makes no difference to him. In
- |> contrast to that, I _do_ care which OS comes on my machine (after all, this is
- |> the whole purpose of this exercise), and, I presume, others would care that
- |> their machine comes with DOS and Windows (though the reason completely escapes
- |> me).
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- Surely you're not saying that a company can do anything it likes as long
- as you can't see it?
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