AZ Nomad wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:09:23 -0700, Schizoid Man wrote:
Oh puleeze. How about quantity discounts to companies that bundled windows
that charge them for every computer wether or not it had windows? It meant
that a computer with any other operating system charged the user for both
windows and the other OS.

That is pure ********. If I order a machine from Dell with Linux on it,
I pay a Windows premium? LOL!


How about companies being denied discounts if
they sold any other OS?

What's the big deal with that? I've heard a million stories where Coke
employees were spotted drinking Pepsi or vice versa and subsequently fired.

Did you know the reason that you can't order AMD-based PCs from Dell's
website because of an exlcusive marketing deal that they have with Intel?

Or are you about to argue against promoting one's own product?

Or developers being denied vital system information
if they refused to sign a agreement that they wouldn't develop for any other
os?

Oh really? I suppose software houses like IBM, HP, Adobe, EA, Macromedia
don't develop software on any other platform but Windows. I honestly did
not know that.

Even IBM agreed to dump OS/2 in order to get the same price for including
windows on their computers that every other maker received.

IBM dumped OS/2 because it failed to catch on in the market. Perhaps you
didn't know that OS/2 was originally born out of a collaboration between
Microsoft and IBM.

This is common knowledge. Pull your head out of your ass and do a web
search.

What is common knowledge is that every company has their own strongarm
tactics - Intel, Dell, Microsoft. Heck, even Coke does it.

What you should do is crawl back into whatever communist/socialist hole
you climbed.