From: z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:38:00 CST
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <21DEC199210203176@moose.cccs.umn.edu>, rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK) writes:
> In article <8194@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>> In article <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
>> >Yep, that's the good ol' American way of doing business alright.  If you can't
>> >compete with someone, just get the Federal Goverment to break up their 
>> >company.  The real "predatory practices" going on here are those vultures
>> >of rival companies who are waiting to pick the bones of what's left of
>> >Microsoft after the FTC's guts the carcass.
>>  
>> I had to go back to the top of this article just to see if it was being posted
>> from microsoft.com. This is some of the brown-nosiest writing I've seen in
>> some time. The simple fact is that MS isn't playing fair - they force
>> manufacturers to sell machines with Windows and DOS preloaded (don't believe
>> that? just try to buy one without!), 
> 
> Really, try and buy a car without tires.  I always considered it a convienence
> that I didn't have to go over to Goodyear of Firestone after I bought a car :-)
> Seriously, the charge wasn't that they forced anyone to do anything but that
> they were selling DOS at a loss to keep DR-DOS or DesqView from cutting the
> same sort of deal with the OEMs.  There was nothing in the agreement that
> said manufacturer X couldn't include product Y on their machine, just that
> they would include DOS on all of their machines.  BTW, the PC-Taylor chain
> (or at least their stores in the Twin Cities) preload their systems with
> DR-DOS and Windows.
> 
> 
> --rick
> 
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> | Richard Hoffbeck               INTERNET: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu |
> 

	Well Rick, Since you introduced the tire analogy, lets examine
it a little furthur. Would you consider it a convenience if you went 
to buy a $70,000 porche, and the dealer said "Sure we will sell
you one, and they come already equipped with $30 Uniroyal Tiger Paws, beacuse
Uniroyal only allows us to sell Tigerpaws on the Yugos we sell if will make 
Tigerpaws standard all cars we sell." Well Why pay the extra $120 for four
tires that you didn't want to begin with? Of course you would want Goodyear
VR-60's, Michellin's or Pirelli P-7's, but you have to remove the Tigerpaws, buy 
the tires you want separately, and put them on yourself.
                      	
	This analogy is no different than the MS-DOG/Windoze bundling that 
Microsoft has pressured Clone Makers into. If I wanted a Yugo with cheap tires,
I would buy one. But I prefer OS/2, and would like to have the option of having
it preinstalled on a machine I buy.

Michael Kupka
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My Other car isn't a Yugo, and My Other OS isn't MS-DOG/WINDOZE
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