Re: Boycott Microsoft

[roger@. (Roger )]

On Tue, 19 May 1998 21:34:27 -0400, someone claiming to be Rick wrote:

>nate <nhughes@sunflower.com> wrote:

>> What would stop Compaq from installing OS2, Linux, BE or whatever?
>> Could it possibly be that people actually want WInodws, and not some
>> other OS?  If M$ was a monopoly (which it isn't), then it would be so
>> because it is what people want. 

>What stopped them is was the provison in the OEM contracts that MS got a
>license fee for every machine shipped, whether it had an MS OS or not.
>So if the vendor shipped a mchine with a non-MS OS, the vendor paid 2
>license fees. This has been explained in print several times.

And ended more than two years ago.  The situation described (Compaq
wanting to remove IE) happened after this licensing stopped.

So again, 
>> What would stop Compaq from installing OS2, Linux, BE or whatever?