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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <8315@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.012301.29017@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8327@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.191424.23994@nosc.mil>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:21:02 GMT
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- 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?
-
- >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).
-
- The problem with this argument is that you are assuming that the present
- state of the business is the only possible alternative.
-
- Given the present Microsoft sales policies we are stuck with the
- kind of choices you give.
-
- If Microsoft offered a less rescrictive sales option company A could also
- be offering a computer without DOS+Windows for $980.
-
- Just because a choice is the best available now doesn't mean that its
- the best possible.
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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