Re: Some interesting economic facts

["Norm" <normanmo@clark.net>]

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:20:51 -0700 (PDT), Matt Deatrick wrote:

>>      I wouldn't be too quick to allow the OEMs off the hook, the truth
>> is that M$ couldn't have pulled it off without them.  Although it's
>> true that at this time they have little choice but to play ball with
>> M$, but it wasn't always like that.  As much as I hate to see OEMs
>> bullied by M$ my sympathy isn't with the OEMs themselves.  They made
>> their bed, but what's sad is that they're able to force the consumer to
>> sleep in it along with them.
>> 
>
>	Thanks for the reminder, I must have been tired. After having read
>the senate judiciary hearing I felt sorry for Dell. Simply because I think
>we've all had to "brownnose" before, but he had to do it in fornt of the
>entire senate judiciary committee, knowing full well his ideas were
>disproven before he even arrived. That man has swallowed a hell of a lot of
>pride. Granted for profit motive, and granted by increasing monopoly
>control, it's just that the human cost of a monopoly is very often
>forgoten.


     Personally I didn't feel sorry for him one bit.  Besides the fact
that Dell has amassed a great deal of wealth by stroking M$, IMO
companies like his helped M$ build their monopoly.  Although they're
pretty much locked in right now that wasn't always the case, yet even
when there was nothing stopping them from selling boxes with
alternative OSs they refused to.  It's just another example of 'what
goes around comes around'...there is such a thing as 'poetic justice'.

 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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