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- From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.090328.10333@weyrich.UUCP>
- Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
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- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- References: <1993Jan19.102800.13265@waikato.ac.nz> <80619@hydra.gatech.EDU> <80699@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 09:03:28 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- [followup to comp.os.os2.advocacy]
-
- In article <80699@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
- >
- >So in short unless IBM pulls out another surprise (the wording in the agreement
- >may indicate that IBM doesn't owe MS any more money, I don't know), IBM will
- >be paying MS a per license fee.
- >
- >
- >Yes, but given IBM's current financial state (18 year stock low, and its
- >dropping further after this mornings announcement- about $5 billion worth
- >of losses last quarter), they can't afford to pay MS $25 per copy and then
- >give it away to 2 million customers for free! And this completely excludes the
- >cost of development, which IBM is planning to eat anyway!
-
- $25/copy royalties????? I was under the impression that MS charges the clone
- makers about $8/copy for the full 3.1 code plus DOS that MS allows to be
- bundled with new computers? And IBM already has copyright on some parts of
- DOS and Windows, I think. These numbers look funny. Either IBM negotiated
- a very BAD deal or else my numbers are wrong.
-
- Anyone with clarification?
-
- orville
-
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