Re: Boycott Microsoft

[BinaryBillTheSailor@Sea++.com]

You are VERY wrong my uninformed friend. I suggest you call Dell,
Gateway or any other major OEM and try to buy a PC with either an OS
besides MIcrosoft's, or even NO OS at ALL. They won't sell it to you.
Case closed.

On Mon, 18 May 1998 23:54:04 GMT, nhughes@sunflower.com (nate) wrote:

>On Tue, 19 May 1998 18:20:33 -0500, don.brown@cesoft.com (Donald
>Brown) wrote:
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>>If, when this was added to the OEM contract, Compaq had said "This is 
>>unacceptable and we won't sign that contract", MS would have said "Enjoy 
>>your going out of business sale."
>
>
>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. 
>
>That's where all this monopoly crap breaks down.  I and everyone else
>can buy any of a dozen computer architectures with a few more
>different OS's anytime we want.  On top of that, We can use an FTP
>client and download at least 4 different internet browsers, install
>them and forget that IE exists.   Monopoly my ass.
> 
>
>Nathan A. Hughes
>MFA Candidate
>The University Theatre, KU
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