[ale] M$ refund

[Jeff Lightner]

I don't think I said anything about "good".  I said "anti-competitive"
and that is dealt with in our anti-trust laws.

Your arguments sound much like the ones in old rape cases where the
defending attorney would say "look at how she was dressed".   Having a
desire to look pretty is NOT the same as wishing to be raped any more
than having a desire to be in business is the same as a desire to have
your arm twisted by a corporate bully to stay in business.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Popovitch
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:11 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] M$ refund

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 09:55, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure if Dell suddenly announced "we're not selling M$ any
> more due to their anti-competitive practices" they'd be out of
business
> in short order.

True, however that is more so because their primary business is
centered around selling hardware used with XP/Windows.... and they got
into that primary business based on desire to make massive amounts of
money (i.e. *not* do good will for the community).      Don't forget,
nobody forced Dell to get into the PC business... they opt'ed to do
what they did and along the way signed the paperwork they signed.

> Part of earlier complaints against M$ was that they
> gave you a take or leave it agreement because they knew you couldn't
> stay in business without them.

So, should only "good" contracts should be allowed in this world?
Define "good". ;-)

-Jim P.
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