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- From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Microsoft and Force continued.
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 20:48:56 MET
- References: <1993Jan9.004117.29420@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <726581482rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> <1993Jan10.003641.11144@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan10.003641.11144@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <726581482rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>, rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >|> >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.
-
- But it has McDonald's printed on the door. Unless it's a shop named
- "Microsoft", MS should not try to force them not to sell competing
- products.
-
- >|> 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.
-
- See above.
-
- >|> >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. ^^^
- he?
- But there is more than one woman in the world, not only one
- that tries to force ALL men to sleep only with her. Enough of this
- comparison now ... :-)
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
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- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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