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- From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dump the crappy hardware!!! (was: Haynie joins AT team)
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 20:41:43 GMT
- Organization: Telecom Research Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia.
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- From article <4j6dgl$cni@flood.xnet.com>, by jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton):
- > Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- >
- > : Because you cannot make money with selling an operating system.
- >
- > This is fascinating news for those people who thought Microsoft was a
- > multi-billion dollar company.
-
- No, they got to the _multi_ bit by integrating the OS into their other
- products so that no one else's OS would work with them, and charging
- high prices for the package. The OS itself is relatively cheap.
- Don't forget - most OS sales are to OEMs, and it is quite cheap to them.
-
- Allan Duncan a.duncan@trl.telstra.com.au (+613) 9253 6708, Fax 9253 6664
- Photonics & Reference Standards Section
- Telstra Research Labs, Box 249 Rosebank MDC
- Clayton, Victoria, 3169, Australia (a world renowned Lab in past times)
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