Re: Boycott Microsoft

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Wed, 20 May 1998 20:12:58 GMT, roger@. (Roger ) wrote:

|>>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?

by then, the "damage" had been done.  M$ aquired the bulk of the OS
market by getting their OS to be the only one available.  this, at a
time when the vast bulk of computer owners were (are?) simply USERS
that know nothing about installing another OS (and have no real desire
to take such a risk), was VITAL.  this very ploy is why M$ WinDOZE is
PERCIEVED to be a "popular" OS.

anyone that thinks that WinDOZE has a market simply because it's a
quality product really needs to see a doctor about their recto-cranial
inversion, then proceed to visit reality more often....

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William Smith
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