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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (34696)	11/23/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) of 74651

John, >>You brought up the subject of MSFT abusing poor IBM. I too thought it had little to do with the price argument. I was just pointing out that IBM certainly could have used their far superior O/S 2 - no? IBM happens to be the reference here but it could be any of the OEMs affected. They did sell machines with OS/2 as well but if the customer wanted Windows or Linux preinstalled they should not have paid more than the guy buying Windows or Linux on a Dell. We both know it costs nothing to manufacture and ship OEM disks of Windows. What justification could exist for large pricing differences? IBM was certainly a high-volume customer. Cheers, Norm

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