Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Spectre
Date : Tue Apr 26 2022 08:32:00

 Ni> I didn't know shops would include a copy of Windows at their own cost.

 pF> They'd sell Windows as part of the cost, or sort of look at you and drop
 pF> in  a shrink-wrapped copy of DOS and shrug.

I'm not sure now off hand how it worked, but there was a time M$ got a
license fee for every PC going.  After this ran for some time, and people
were starting to use Linux as an alternative, there was a bit of a to do, and
a court case I think that stopped that and if you didn't want Windows you'd
get a "refund" on that license.

Spec


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