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Re: Should the Fed Gov break up Microsoft? No

Subject: Re: Should the Fed Gov break up Microsoft? No
From: "Forrest" <bctimes@hotmail.com>
Date: 2000/01/28
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Institut fuer Eichhoernchenstudien
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"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote :

>      Having the sock to make things rough on the competition is one of the
> rewards for success. (That's why they call it "competition".)  So is being
> able to "force other companies into decisions they did not want to make".

E.G. Apple being obliged to cancel their BASIC for the Mac when Microsoft
threatened to not renew the licence for Applesoft.  (Yikes, a sound business
reason to dump the Apple II...)

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