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- From: discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.203946.9142@nosc.mil>
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
- References: <8327@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.191424.23994@nosc.mil> <wiegand.726348062@lido16>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:39:46 GMT
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- In article <wiegand.726348062@lido16> motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- Ah... but the real culprit is that people want DOS+Windows. And whoever
- can get the best price for DOS+Windows wins (a colleague of mine undercut
- my price for a short period of time because he bought another company's
- liquidated stock).
-
- And when people decide NOT to want MS-DOS + Windows (OS/2 2.1 perhaps),
- then vendors won't bother signing any MLP agreements.
-
- I cannot run a business by buying product at prices that don't exist. I
- must live in the present: so what is the best available now--IS the
- best possible NOW. Those who sign up for the MLP agree that it is the
- best for now--and nobody is forcing vendors (contrary to other's beliefs)
- to sign up with Microsoft.
-
-
- >--
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
- >motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net uunet!motcid!wiegand
- >Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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