Re: Boycott Microsoft

[nhughes@sunflower.com (nate)]

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
http://scenedesign.home.ml.org