Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:22:48 -0700 (MST) From: Keith Davey <kdavey@gus33.homeip.net> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>, "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010251512540.13552-100000@gus33.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <39F7442A.78B679C5@acuson.com>
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, David Johnson wrote: > "Victor R. Cardona" wrote: > > > > Doug, I would not aim Microsoft also. This is business. And nothing evil. > > > Personally I do not like Microsoft products, they are unstable. But no one > > > makes you to use them. Bill Gates did not come to people with automatic gun > > > and tell them: "Hey Folk, buy Microsoft Products, or I will shoot you !". > > > It's people who made Microsoft gigantic corporation. No one makes you to buy > > > products, if you don't like it- do not buy it and do not use it. Easy as > > > 1,2,3. > > > > Try buying a new computer without Windows. Granted it is a lot easier > > now then it once was, but still most off the shelf PCs come with > > Microsoft software. > > 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. > > David > That is not actualy acurate. No I doubt a gun, but a price tag is almost as bad. It was (still is) common practice for MS to offer a busness a LARGE discount on the OEM licence for Windows to OEMs that agreed to: 1. Ship Windows preinstalled 2. Do not ship any systems with any other OS (originaly this was to squash OS/2) In an industry where a couple hundred dollers makes all the diffents in making a sale, this method works quite well. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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