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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOS not operating system, film at 11. :-)
- Message-ID: <7835@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 13:11:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov02.215818.22347@microsoft.com> <92308.115001MICHAELB@UCF1VM.BITNET> <1992Nov11.225957.10025@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Nov11.225957.10025@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
- >I would remind you that OEM's are not Forced by MS to include any MS product
- >in their systems.
-
- I guess you've missed the many posts from folks who have tried to buy machines
- from companies like Gateway 2000 and Zeos without Windows installed, only to
- be told that their agreement with MS requires them to include it on every
- computer they sell...Personally, if I were to buy a machine, I would not buy
- any that came only with Windows preinstalled.
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- We survived Jimmy Carter; we'll (probably) survive Bill Clinton.
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