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- From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Microsoft and Force continued.
- Message-ID: <726581482rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 12:11:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.175811.7172@gw.wmich.edu> <1993Jan9.004117.29420@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan9.004117.29420@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >|> In 1990, Nintendo America would often threaten not to let stores
- >|> sell Nintendo or Nintendo made cartridges for their popular game machine
- >|> if the seller stocked competing systems. This is wrong.
- >
- >Ever try buying a Frosty at McDonalds?
-
- The game store is not owned by Nintendo and the computer sellers are
- not owned by Microsoft. But then, even Mercedes Benz dealers sell used
- BMW and VW cars and vice versa.
-
- >In a polite, decent society people don't gang up with the goverment and steal
- >what belongs to others. Microsoft owns windows, and a polite, decent person,
- >even though they might not agree with what Microsoft is doing, will respect
- >Microsoft's right to sell what belongs to them.
-
- Think before you write. MS is trying to force independent dealers NOT
- to sell competing products. Microsoft does not sell Windows directly
- to end users.
-
- >Well, this is admittedly an extreme example, but I'll bet that there are
- >as many men who want to sleep with Cindy Crawford as there are PC's running
- >MS-DOS. Can I set my self up as a "dealer" and use "customer demand" to
- >justify pimping her? After all, she is a monopoly supplier.
-
- You got something wrong. Your example is reversed. Compare MS to if
- C.C. was trying to force all men in the world to sleep ONLY with her. :-) :-)
- You would flame her for forcing competing women out of the market. :-)
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
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- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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