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- From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
- Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.014010.26093@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:40:10 GMT
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- jcb (Jim Becker) writes:
- > From: chrisr@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Ringe)
- >
- > Ever hear of Hitler? Well any company that wants to take over the entire
- > market, leaving no competition, should be shot and pi--ed on.
- > Best Bet, buy OS/2, wait for PINK, and take IBM's upgrade path to it.
-
- >i find it really humorous that the _only_ company i have heard
- >desiring to have a 100% lock on all computer markets is IBM. they have
- >publically said this, a few years ago.
- >
- >so here is a comparison of MicroSoft to Hitler, when they are doing
- >their best to make it easy to develop competing software products. and
- >on top of that a recommendation to use the software of the one company
- >that _has_ said they want to rule the world! pretty funny.
-
- Well, thing is, even if MS hasn't announced they want a 100% lock on a
- market, they are much closer to it (wrt 80x86 operating sytems) than IBM.
- I'd worry about market domination based on what portion of the market a
- company currently has, not how much it announces it would like to have.
- --
- John H. Kim | (This space to be filled when I
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