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- In article <4j95gk$d98@flood.xnet.com> (Jason Compton) writes:
- > Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
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- > : 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 ?
- >
- > That's HOW they make money selling the OS. I didn't say it was easy, and
- > nobody else can do it these days, but it IS possible, as Microsoft shows.
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- Semantics, but essentially Michael is correct, they don't make money
- selling the OS, but on the applications that people are then forced to buy
- or upgrade at much higher prices in order to work with the newest version of
- the OS. It's simply the honey that attracts the flies! ;-)
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