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- From: x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Microsoft and Force continued.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.230222.7225@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 23:02:22 EST
- References: <1993Jan8.175811.7172@gw.wmich.edu> <1993Jan10.061732.13960@nosc.mil> <1993Jan10.233019.7187@gw.wmich.edu> <1993Jan13.000806.27200@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <1993Jan13.000806.27200@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan10.233019.7187@gw.wmich.edu>, x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- >
- > |> 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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Even at 10 cents a copy you'd be hard pressed to consider what Microsoft
- > is doing "dumping".
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- I am sure I won't be the only one to mention this but there are
- a lot more costs in software than copying floppies. A lot of ManYears went
- into the making of Windows 3.1. Those Cs guys have to be paid with something.
- The packaging, manuals, shipping, advertising, development come out to be
- well over $6 per unit. It is in every sense, dumping.
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- -Brad
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