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- From: discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.191651.24371@nosc.mil>
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
- References: <wiegand.726161691@lido16> <1993Jan5.014925.29433@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8328@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:16:51 GMT
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- In article <8328@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.014925.29433@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >>If they want to be in business selling Microsoft products which Microsoft
- >>owns, they are going to have to do so on Microsoft terms.
- >
- >Not if those terms are unfair and anticompetitive. This society has decided
- >that such dealings are wrong. If you don't like that, you can either work to
- >get the laws changed, or move to a place that doesn't care about it.
- >
- >>Nobody has a "right" to buy something at any price they want to!
- >
- >Nobody has a right to sell things at artificial terms that force competitors
- >out of business, either, in this society.
- >
- >>Any society which doesn't respect the rights of ownership is doomed.
- >
- >Any society that allows unlimited monopolization is similarly doomed.
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- Jay, there are alternatives to DOS and Windows. IBM OS/2, Unix, Solaris,
- DR-DOS, GEM... Microsoft hardly has a monopoly. Sure, if you want
- MS-DOS or Windows, you gotta go to Microsoft... much as if you want
- Coke (and Pepsi won't do) you gotta go to Coca Cola Company.
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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.
- > "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
- > -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
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