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Nov 18 3:59 PM EST

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To: John F. who wrote (41668)	4/10/2000 6:29:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) of 74651

John - re: Microsoft goes to Dell, Compaq, HWP and says: If you guys sell any systems at all with Win 95 installed, then we are going to assume that you installed it on every machine. You are pretty far off base - although correct in the notion that MSFT intended for "per system" licensing to raise the barrier to other vendors. But the program you describe was only one of many ways to buy OS bits from MSFT, and was never mandatory. It was just the way to get the highest discount level. All of the OEMs had the option of tracking licenses sold, and paying just for those. MSFT has at least 6 different methods for OEMs to buy bits - so the notion that these OEMs were somehow forced to take per-system licensing is just incorrect - they did it to get the best price, if they did it. Also, this practice was not even discussed in the current DOJ action - it was an issue in the previous action and consent decree. MSFT has not offered per-system licensing for more than 5 years.

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