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- From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: DISMANTLE MICROSOFT (Was Re: Industry market shares)
- Message-ID: <rdippold.728095489@qualcom>
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <1993Jan20.175346.14193@netcom.com> <1993Jan21.160142.7877@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1993Jan22.073622.21914@reed.edu> <C1F3Kx.267@phage.cshl.org> <GDAY.93Jan26115005@sashimi.inde.bc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:44:49 GMT
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- Let Microsoft get too big and too arrogant and they'll find themselves
- in the same boat as IBM. Calling in the government to control them is
- like getting the mafia to off someone because you think the person is
- immoral. They can't do anything but make it worse in the long run.
- --
- .. a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public
- services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen...
- -- Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App.181)
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