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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: Microsoft and Force continued.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.000806.27200@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:08:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.233019.7187@gw.wmich.edu>, x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
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- |> One of the newer packages that MS is shelling out is Windows
- |> for Workgroups/DOS 5 for $6.
- |>
- |> In the card industry, that is called "dumping" and is illegal.
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- If by "dumping" you mean selling below cost then this isn't dumping. The
- difference between the card industry and the software industry is that
- costs a lot more money to build a card than it does to rearrange magnetic
- domains on a disk.
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- Even at 10 cents a copy you'd be hard pressed to consider what Microsoft
- is doing "dumping".
-