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- From: vervoorn@sunspot.et.tudelft.nl (Patrick Vervoorn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dump the crappy hardware!!! (was: Haynie joins AT team)
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 10:55:17 GMT
- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Delft
- Message-ID: <4j8iel$21o@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl>
- References: <4iutet$cb2@astfgl.idb.hist.no> <4j3ltf$l99@serpens.rhein.de> <4j6dgl$cni@flood.xnet.com> <4j71c1$2jq@serpens.rhein.de>
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- In article <4j71c1$2jq@serpens.rhein.de>,
- Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de> wrote:
- >jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >Do you think Microsoft would make money by selling an operating system ?
- >Don't you think that they make money by binding close to all clone
- >manufacturers to exclusively buy their product ? Or with their other
- >programs that benefit from OS features that aren't available to the
- >competition ? Or by buying and licensing out huge datasets ? And all
- >this because they got half of the market for free in the beginning ?
-
- How about SCO then?
-
- Regards,
-
- Patrick.
-
-