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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:37:45 +0000 (GMT)
From:      ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI <961BE653994@stud.alakhawayn.ma>
To:        Keith Davey <kdavey@gus33.homeip.net>
Cc:        David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>, "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.SOL.3.96.1001025223732.21705B-100000@stud.alakhawayn.ma>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010251512540.13552-100000@gus33.homeip.net>

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I agree with you Keith.


On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Keith Davey wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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