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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <BzHGFA.Boo@utdallas.edu> <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <8194@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec20.191744.29861@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec20.203000.878@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:36:13 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
-
- >|>The simple fact is that MS isn't playing fair - they force
- >|> manufacturers to sell machines with Windows and DOS preloaded (don't believe
- >|> that? just try to buy one without!),
-
- >Wait a minute--they "force" manufacturers to sell Windows and DOS? Microsoft
- >won't hold a gun to the head of anybody who wants to sell their machine with
- >DR DOS or OS/2 preloaded.
-
- No they don't force them to sell DOS with their machines, but they do
- require an all-or-nothing alternative. Either you include MS-DOS with
- every machine you sell or you don't include it with any machines.
- The only way to get MS-DOS on a per-copy basis is to pay full retail
- price. The volume discount requiures that you pay a royality for *every*
- machine you ship.
-
- Since a manufacturer who didn't offer MS-DOS with their machines
- would lose lots of sales almost all of the agree with Microsoft's terms.
-
- --
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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