Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : Vorlon
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu May 04 2023 06:45:00

-=> Vorlon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Vo> No one is forced to pay for windows, unless you go for a name brand
 Vo> (Ie: HP/Dell etc).. They have deals with MS. There is *nothing*
 Vo> stopping you from putting on another OS from a non name brand pc.

Agreed, albeit in the past Microsoft worked with the courts to have
computer manufacturers pay them whether Microsoft was installed or not.
This was a condition of selling any Microsoft products and was an
example of their abuse of monopoly power in the '90s.

To clarify, there's nothing stopping you from installing alternate OSes,
just that you were paying for Microsoft whether you used it or not.

Enterprise customers get it twice - pay for an embedded Windows license,
then image the PC with your corporate image and pay for that image, too.

 Vo> I re-did a pc for a friend the other week, and after lending her a
 Vo> laptop with linux on it, the new pc (to her) has linux on it as well.

 Vo> It originally came with NO os. It's a Intel NUC.

I suppose Intel is the Bigger Gorilla in the room.   :)



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