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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.203709.25238@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 20:37:09 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.051750.5270@microsoft.com> <8289@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan04.042526.11051@microsoft.com> <8302@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8302@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
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- |> > This keeps getting bandied about. No matter how many times you
- |> >say it, Jay, you aren't being "compelled" to buy DOS or Windows unless
- |> >there is _no_ OEM who sells a system without them. This is clearly
- |> >not that case, and so I conclude that you are either intentionally
- |> >distorting the facts or are woefully ignorant of them.
- |>
- |> If I decide that the Gateway 2000 486/50 is the best machine for me, and the
- |> Zeos is the second best, and the Northgate is the next choice, then I'm being
- |> compelled to buy DOS and Windows, because none of those systems are available
- |> without them.
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- I know exactly how you feel!! The best machine for me is a PS/2 but those
- bastards at IBM refuse to preload Windows on it!!
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- So I try for my second choice, an HP-PA machine, but would you believe the
- _gall_ of those guys? They won't sell it with SunOS!!!
-