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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:51:05 -0400
From:      "SILVER, MICHAEL A" <MSILVER@scana.com>
To:        "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "'Zaitsau, Andrei'" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com>, "'David Johnson'" <djohnson@acuson.com>, "'Victor R. Cardona'" <vcardona@home.com>
Subject:   RE: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE760579464F@msg04.scana.com>

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> 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
> calling Microsoft evil when it's the computer manufacturer that sells
> the "take it or leave it" systems.

They held the proverbial gun to their head.  Unless the hardware
manufacturer sold windows with *every* PC they would either be prevented
from selling windows at all, or would have to pay unreasonable prices.  This
is one of the items the justice department originally went after them for in
1995.

...Michael...


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