From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 25 13:47:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cstone.net (mail.cstone.net [209.145.64.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D3137B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cstone.net (aylee.mrgoodbucks.com [209.145.93.143]) by mail.cstone.net (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9PKkPG54369 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:46:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39F7473B.A2566C2C@cstone.net> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:48:59 -0400 From: Sean Michael Whipkey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CCD@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <20001025151928.A29563@home.com> <39F7442A.78B679C5@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Johnson wrote: > Far be it for me to defend Microsoft, but I seriously doubt that they > actually held a gun to the head to Dell, Packard Bell, IBM, Acer, et al, > forcing them to ship their products with Windows. It does no good Actually, for a while they did the economic equivalent. If you built machines, and wanted to have Windows on them, Microsoft would cut you a bulk discount on Windows - if, and only if, you installed Windows on EVERY single machine. Don't install it on one and you'd have to pay full price for every copy. IIRC, that's part of the reason why MS has been hit lately by the government. SeanMike -- SeanMike Whipkey - "The Man. The goatee. The reputation." - Kimmet "What the hell is wrong with that boy?!?" - Adrienne Uphoff "What the French lack in reason they make up for in sheer gall." - Onion "Did anyone else read this and think of SeanMike?" - Leybourne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message