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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:15:06 -0800
- From: Craig_Swanson@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
- Subject: OS/2 must ship with systems
- Comment-To: Steve.Withers@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
- Message-ID: <2b64666a@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org>
- Reply-To: Craig_Swanson@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
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- S> At risk of starting the FTC thing again.......i just
- S> read through most of the
- S> ads in the December Computer Shopper (mine comes by boat...OK?).
- S>
- S> "* includes MSDOS5 and Windows 3.1!"
- S>
- S> got pretty boring by the 300th ad. A couple mentioned other OS's
- being
- S> available...usually OS/2 was first mentioned as an alternative.
- S>
- S> But why virtually NO vendors will offer OS/2 as an option has me
- wondering.
- S> People who use OS/2 almost have to go out and *find* it.
- S> I don't blame IBM for
- S> this completely. The MS lock on the mail-order PC market *is* a
- virtual
- S> monopoly. No one else gets a look in.
-
- S> How can OS/2 get vendors to ship it with systems? I
- S> don't know what the answer
- S> is: make it $10 a copy to OEMs like MS has done with their
- software?
-
- How about this:
-
- Since the rumor is that Microsoft charges $8 to include DOS and
- Windows
- with systems if the $8 is paid for all systems, IBM could charge $8
- more
- to include OS/2 2.1 with all systems which are shipped with DOS and
- Windows
- and then avoid paying the $20 or so licensing fee to Microsoft for
- the
- DOS/Windows code in OS/2 2.x as the user already has a license to
- this
- code because regular DOS/Windows are included with the machine.
-
- In other words, use Microsoft's $8 licensing against them.
-
-
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