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Dec 8 3:59 PM EST

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To: FR1 who wrote (6470)	11/19/1997 1:29:00 PM
From: HerbVic	of 213174

>... AAPL can offer it in January!.....but noooo - we gotta snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. If you buy a Intel box and you don't like any of the MSFTsoftware you can use NeXT or SOLARIS or various Unix OSs. Right now if you buy a Mac box you either use MAC or you got a very expensive paper weight. If you are a MIS director and your job depended on it, which box would you buy? Jobs has stated that Apple will not manufacture on the Intel platform, but there could be very good reason for that choice. It appears as though, at least over the near term, he wants Apple's OS's to monopolize the PPC market and offer Rhapsody licenses to manufacturers of the Intel platform. Getting companies to offer Rhapsody as an optional OS will not be easy though. Microsoft's license agreement states that the manufacturer will pay Microsoft for each unit sold, regardless of which OS is installed. Only companies that are not interested in having licenses with Microsoft would consider paying for Rhapsody. Any OS competing with Microsoft would have to be FREE in order to get any play at all. It is this part of Microsoft's license agreement that the Justice Department should be concerned with. It stifles innovation and eliminates competition. Intel should be outraged at the requirement. It invisibly ties the success of Intel to that of Microsoft. While that arrangement may bear sweet fruit for now, in the ever changing weather of world technology markets Intel is exposed to any future storm damage at Microsoft. It is not a conservative business model. This bit of news seems somehow related. techweb.com Motorola and IBM supply Apple with the PowerPC processors. Motorola no longer licenses the MacOS. Now Motorola is offering a Wintel PC. Is there anything to read into this? Just curious... HerbVic, JAAO

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