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- From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
- Subject: Re: Microsoft and Force continued.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.182306.201282@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
- References: <1993Jan9.004117.29420@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <726581482rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> <1993Jan10.003641.11144@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:23:06 GMT
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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:
- >|> 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.
- Ah, I think we are in a semantic conflict here. A McDonald's resturant is
- either owned by McDonalds or Franchised by them (a limited Ownership).
- In order to sell a McDonalds (a trade marked item) you must have this
- liscense. You do not need the license to sell a hamberger or a shake
- except from your local city government.
-
- No license or franchise by Microsoft is required to operate an independent
- computer store. And since Microsoft doesn't sell computers why should
- that computer store be forced to sell DOS Pre-installed. He must only
- by contract, but the difference between $8 per copy under the contract
- and $75 per copy from distrubution (new installation, not upgrade) argues
- for jumping at the $8 price. It may be this version of the contract
- and deep discounting is illegal under the Anti-Trust laws, and if so
- Microsoft should be slapped on the wrist. If not, well, then every one
- should prepair for having only MS Operating systems on their computers,
- and making Billy the first Zillionare on the planet.
-
-
- <much deleted>
- >
- >|> 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.
- McDonald's dealers are franchies, not independents, your analogy is incorrect.
-
- >
- >|> >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.
- But the question is would you flame the woman if she insisted that
- every man sleep with her and no other. Not wether a woman insists that
- A man only sleep with her.
-
-
- --Uncle Wolf
- --Lowell Morrison
-