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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.153416.28563@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan5.012301.29017@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8327@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.191424.23994@nosc.mil>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:34:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.191424.23994@nosc.mil> discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes:
- >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?
-
-
- What Jay fails to grasp is that the "all machines licensed"
- deal that everyone hereis whining about is very likely to be
- quite rare next to other deals. I bought *5* clones over the
- last 5 months--none of them with DOS5 or Windows. I didn't have
- to look around, I didn't have to fuss about it. I simply said,
- "How much w/o DOS and Windows?" and that was that. (The price
- difference, if it matters, was $25 at most).
-
-
- >>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.
-
-
- Sounds like paranoia to me.
-
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-
-
- --
- Blaming "society" for your problems is like blaming clouds for rain.
- --- boycott == coercion == censorship == closed mindedness == cowardice ---
- "Psalms 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."
- Shepherds are for sheep. ----- Pain teaches.
-