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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: QwikSand who wrote (32635)6/4/2000 4:10:00 AM
From: Steve Lee  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Re: "it's not by the illegal M$-style extortion the industry had come to accept"

If u want to write software to run on an MS system, u can do so without buying any MS software, signing any MS agreement or even ever using the words "Microsoft" or "Windows". U make no payment whatsoever to MS, their role in the deal is to supply you with a popular set of OS's to give you a large customer base. Where is the extortion here?
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