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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.012623.27317@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 01:26:23 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.172229.3466@microsoft.com> <8236@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec31.165527.20830@microsoft.com>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec31.165527.20830@microsoft.com> philco@microsoft.com (Phillip Cooper) writes:
- >And again, I say who is forcing the vendors to sell DOS and Windows with
- >each machine?? Certainly it is not Microsoft. We explicitly offer licensing
- >agreements that allow them to only pay royalties on copies of the OS which
- >are actually installed. If anyone is forcing them, it is the 99% of their
- >customers who *demand* MS-DOS and Windows.
-
- OS/2 2.0 preinstalled systems have roughly 10% market share at
- present, if my estimates are correct. That figure is also growing,
- much to Microsoft's consternation, I imagine. I suggest you revise
- your figure downward as long as you're willing to claim that bundling
- equals customer demand. Methinks not.
-
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