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Article #1281Re: Free capitalism <> Microsoft (Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
From: jmax... Jon A. Maxwell
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 00:00
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Ken wrote:
] Curtis Bass <cbass%int...@mhost.utmb.edu> wrote:
] >I buy a Gateway 2000 computer, I am FORCED to buy a copy of
] >MS-DOS 6.xx and Windows (for Workgroups) 3.11. I am FORCED
] >to choose between (MS-Office + MS-Money), and (CorelDRAW! +
] >other publishing tools). Ditto (or at least similarly) for
] >most other PC brands.
] But you are not FORCED to buy a Gateway.
] God. This is so simple and you just don't get it.
Who doesn't get it? Hell, you aren't forced to use city water --you
can always catch and store rainwater, and filter the stuff out of it,
and add chlorine to kill germs, and add flourine to make you teeth
stronger, etc. You /could/, but you aren't going to.
You can generate your own electricity too, so what the heck does it
matter it the power company says you have to give it a key to your
house (or any other crazy demand, like Microsoft makes)? You always
have a choice, dummy!
And nobody forces you to love Microsoft --uh, well at least not yet!
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From: jmax...@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jon A. Maxwell) Subject: Re: Free capitalism <> Microsoft (Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 Date: 1995/08/28 Message-ID: <41rtln$d29@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> X-Deja-AN: 108999975 references: <3t91i2$3gt@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> <boP5mqrPwxPS078yn@vestnett.no> <3v9fou$8hs@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <3vc3pd$ng@seymour.sfu.ca> <3vcd03$i17@news.acns.nwu.edu> <3vgn6d$9vk@gandalf.pic.net> <3vgr03$sl0@nuhou.aloha.net> <3vmbd1$5a6@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <403vsg$cip@steel.interlog.com> <405p0e$c94_002@hillsc.phibred.com> <40646m$ib3@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <407ugd$ks@gozer.inri.com> <4081m0$kvs@atlantis.utmb.edu> <41rmpv$bdj@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> followup-to: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit