fbi, crypto, and defcon
Steven L Baur
steve at miranova.com
Fri Aug 2 19:18:12 PDT 1996
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul J Bell <pjb at ny.ubs.com> writes:
jonathon> When I purchased my computers, I had to pay $150 to not have
jonathon> Windows and Dos installed on them. That $150 went to Microsoft.
jonathon> It seemed to me that I was being ripped off, by Microsoft.
Paul> as i said, i have no use for microsoft, whats more, i don't use
Paul> microsoft. that said, if a person really must pay to not have
Paul> their products installed, i agree that that is intorelable, and
Paul> at the least calls for finding a new vendor for computers. if
Paul> you really don't plan to use dos or windows, there is no reason
Paul> why you should pay for them. frankly, this sounds like a real
Paul> stupid move on the part of your hardware vendor. maybe you need
Paul> to shop around.
This is exactly what a new lawsuit recently filed against Microsoft is
about. See
http://www.caldera.com/news/pr001.html
for details.
They've already had their hand slapped for the per-processor license
agreements they pushed in the early '90s. The per-processor licenses
were where Microsoft forced hardware vendors to pay a certain fee
based on CPUs sold regardless of what system software was delivered on
them.
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