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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: Microsoft and Force continued.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.003641.11144@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:36:41 GMT
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- In article <726581482rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>, rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
- |> 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.
-
- A McDonald's restraunt isn't owned by McDonald's either.
-
- |> >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.
-
- Don't patronize.
-
- |> MS is trying to force independent dealers NOT
- |> to sell competing products. Microsoft does not sell Windows directly
- |> to end users.
-
- McDonald's does the same thing to its dealers.
-
- |> >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. :-)
-
- Actually, I know a lot of women who won't sleep with a man unless she sleeps
- only with her.
-