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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: 6 Jan 1993 15:31:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.191424.23994@nosc.mil> discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes:
- >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?
-
- B. It's worth $5 to me to know that none of my money is going to MS for
- products I neither need nor want.
-
- >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).
-
- Why are A's sales necessarily "much higher" than B's? There are lots of
- variables that your analysis leaves out.
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- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
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