Re: microsoft tells me to "go and play with my computer"

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From: Jon Skeet
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 00:00

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Mike Dowling <mike7@MooCow.math.nat.tu-bs.de> wrote:

> Obviously, the anti-trust arguments are sufficiently complex to confuse most
> people.  Nobody is *forced* to use Microsoft, even if your PC dealer soiled
> the hard disk of your new computer with Mocrosoft's products.

Not forced to *use* it, but forced to *pay* for it.

> On another front, it is not at all so obvious; nobody can claim
> that Microsoft's basic operating software is too expensive, especially if
> you get to for free when you buy your computer.

Who says you get it for free? Do you think the retailers don't give 
anything to Microsoft? (If they didn't a lot of us would be running 
unlicensed software.) Do you think they don't pass that cost onto 
consumers?

-- 
Jon Skeet - skeet@pobox.com
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/

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From: skeet@pobox.com (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: microsoft tells me to "go and play with my computer"
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