Re: Price gouging is beneficial. Price gouging is great!

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:09:52 -0600, jmh wrote
(in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):

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> Gray Shockley wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:35:41 -0600, Cary Kittrell wrote
>> (in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
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>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Robert N. Newshutz" 
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> <
>>> <Alberto Moreira wrote:
>>> <> Said  "Robert N. Newshutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
>>> <> 
>>> <>  
>>> <> 
>>> <>>Is the price MS charges for its products "gouging"?
>>> <> 
>>> <> 
>>> <> It's actually quite the opposite. Most MS products are given away for
>>> <> free. 
>>> <> 
>>> <
>>> <Then I don't think gouging should be used as an excuse to regulate M$.
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>>> 
>>> Aesthetics alone should be more than enough.
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>>> 
>>> -- cary
>>> 
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>> What do you say to an 800-pound 
>> gorilla that's sitting on your hard drive?
>> 
> 
> I said Bye Bye--and I don't even have any big gripe
> about MS operating systems.
> 
> jmh
> 

I started using Apple in 1981 and I'm still using it.

I did run my FidoNet BBS off 286/386 [SX & DX)'s 
but good old PC-DOS 3.2 was really stable.

Of course, since "MS/PC-DOS" was/were a 
ripoff of CP/M bought from Seattle Computer, 
it should have been stable.

And, of course, since the Gatesinians licensed 
the "look and feel" of the Macintosh (for 3.0), . . .


[I had to learn DOS when I first got back to the states around '86 and one of 
the engineers with whom I worked was teaching me. I kept using commands that 
he /knew/ wouldn't work and they kept working. Ya know, like "ERA" instead of 
"DEL".]

[I had been using a "GoldCard" (Z-80) on 
my Apple ][+ and running WordStar 3.0.]




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Choosing Microsoft software for your 
computer is equivalent to choosing 
Dr. Kervorkian as your family doctor.
                                          - Gray Shockley