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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.183918.12022@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <i0eXsB3w165w@qed.cts.com> <rdippold.720299737@qualcom> <1992Nov12.012903.2351@spock.UUCP> <5728@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:39:18 GMT
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- In <5728@sumax.seattleu.edu> khamer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Little Kenny Hamer) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov12.012903.2351@spock.UUCP> roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun) writes:
- >>
- >>Only Microsoft would abuse it's customers like that...
- >>
- >>Roland.
-
- >That statement shows that you are potentially a target for every
- >software/hardware manufacturer there is... Do you really think that
- >Microsoft has any sort of monopoly on taking advantage of customers?
- >Pretty much any corporation will do what it can get away with.
-
- A good reason not to do business with companies that think they can
- get away with anything (which seems to be the attitude of at least
- SOME at MS)?
-
- >One example that comes to mind is an interesting fact about processor
- >speed. It seems that some old (HP or IBM, I believe) mainframe came in a
- >fast and slow version... The fast was more expensive. If a customer
- >wanted to upgrade, the sales rep would come out and remove a jumper on the
- >machine. Talk about abuse...
-
- IBM.
-
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