From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 25 16:22: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8EBC37B4C5 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07974; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:22:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: David Johnson Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <39F7442A.78B679C5@acuson.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, 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 > calling Microsoft evil when it's the computer manufacturer that sells > the "take it or leave it" systems. Actually, you couldn't have picked a better example. All through the mid 80's and part way into the 90's microsoft's licensing deal with the big PC manufacturers said that if you want to ship the windows operating system on ANY PC you manufacture, you must ship it on ALL of them, AND the user must pay for a license whether they want windows or not. The gummint finally put a stop to that one, but it went on for a loooooong time. Gun? Head. Nice to meet you. -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message