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Re: Microsoft monopoly threatens consumer buying choices

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From: Vlad Petersen
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 00:00
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Stephen A. Ecker wrote:
..........
> software available, at least for the Windows platform. Unix, Linux,
> Macintosh, Sun, OS/2, etc? Well, I no longer have enough exposure to these
> systems to really judge, but if these OSs were THAT superior to Windows,
> don't you think either they would be beating Microsoft and that more ISVs
> would be writing software for those platforms?

You forgot hundreds of millions spent by M$ in advertising propaganda.
They have enough resources to flood magazines, newspapers and computer
stores unlike either FSF or Linux/BSD/etc.. vendors. As to IBM, then
there's a saying that if IBM was to sell sushi they'd advertise it as
a dead fish. 

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From: Vlad Petersen <vladimip@compuniserve.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft monopoly threatens consumer buying choices
Date: 1997/08/20
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