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Subject: Re: Something else and maybe final about DOS obstinacy

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 06:14:16 12/07/97

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>It's nice to see that you are in agreement about big businessmen. Here
>are some traditional European ways to be one: Monopolies, tariffs, trade
>barriers, government protectionism, corruption.

(for any point you list above I could give you a name out of the german
scene !!
You are right. These are a few methods ! What is the english word for
Abmahnungen ? This is also a nice way to put pressure on somebody. Or
the normal way: you threaten somebody with the announcement that you
will not anymore deliver him, if he sells your product at this low
price. )

>In the US software industry, unfortunately the only way to be successful
>is the old and tried method of doing what your customers want and giving
>good value for money.

This is what Gates did ? :-)
No  Amir, Gates did not the AMERICAN WAY you suggest.
He used a lot unfair methods. He behaved very european , if you want.

>
>Just a reminder for all those who seriously think that Microsoft would
>be in business for even 12 months if its customers were really
>dissatisfied and had a serious alternative.

Aha. If no alternative exists, because Microsoft stops them to exist,
you cannot choose.
In germany e.g. we have Karl-May books from the
KARL-MAY-publishing-firm.
These books claim to be ORIGINALS but in fact the text in these books is
CHANGED and NOT original.
Other companies tried to sell the original text but were suddenly
attacked by the Karl-May-publishing-firm because this company does not
like to see competitive products. Since 1962 ANYBODY could print
Karl-May books with original texts because the copyright is down. The
only copyrights the Karl-May-publishing-firm has, is the copyright on
the CHANGES !! they have done on Karl May's texts.

This company throws/spams the market with their NON-ORIGINALS since 1912
!!!
And this great betrayal works for 85 years.
GrandMaster Lothar Schmid (we know him from chess) is on of the owners
of this Karl-May-publishing-firm (together with his brother).
All the money he had earned with publishing books he has no rights to do
so, is not HIS money but Karl-May's money, because Karl May wrote the
texts and in his testemony he said: I want all my money to put into a
found for writers in germany. To help poor writers not to die in
poverty.
Instead these guys took his texts, ignored the testemony and: are
honorable guys in our MARKET world. WHY ?
The existence of a company is NO guaranty that it is working legally.
In fact, in a betraying society the existence of a company does not show
how
FAIR a company is, and how legal, but how UNFAIR AND ILLEGALLY a company
works!

If you want to argue FOR Microsoft because it exists, you have
contradicted yourself.

"It betrays, therefore it is !" to misuse Descartes sentence !



>Amir



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