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- From: discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.191424.23994@nosc.mil>
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
- References: <8315@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.012301.29017@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8327@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:14:24 GMT
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- In article <8327@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >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.
-
- Okay, Jay. Let's say that there are two companies A and B. A sells
- computers with DOS+Windows for $1000. B sells computers without DOS+Windows
- for $1005. Who would you buy from?
-
- Remember A can sell for cheaper because his sales are much higher and his
- distributors therefore give him better prices for hardware... and B is slow
- in realizing that most of his customers want DOS+Windows--and he charges
- full-price for it (so those customers go to A who has a better deal
- for such a system).
-
- >
- >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".
- >--
- >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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