Re: Boycott Microsoft

[nospamhattonr@aug.com (Rick)]

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.


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