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To: Ilaine who wrote (6978)	8/12/2001 5:14:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

<Stuff like telling OEMs that they must ship the product with Windows or else pay a license fee anyway, or else Microsoft would not sell them Windows, period, is just bad form. The definition for that kind of tactic is market allocation. There's no reason to do that unless you want to drive competitors out of business, otherwise it doesn't make economic sense to refuse to sell your product to a willing and able buyer unless he quits selling competitive products. There's no reasonable justification for that type of activity.> CB, yes, there is. As you surely know, huge numbers of people steal Microsoft technology. When they buy a PC, what else are they going to use but MSFT? Sure there are Linux and other operating systems but I bet most of the reason for people buying a computer without the operating system is to steal one. If the OEM doesn't like the deal, they can use some other operating system in the computers. Microsoft would then have to contend with that competition. It would not have been a problem for the OEM to sell cheap computers without operating systems. The people who steal are the greater criminals. Witholding product from somebody such as an OEM who supplies computers to thieves is not a crime. There is no victim. If the OEM agrees to the price MSFT charges and that price is payment for all computers shipped, then that is fine and there is again no victim - all transactions and use of property are voluntary. Microsoft was the victim. Microsoft is also the victim of the USA government's stupid anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws and envious, ignorant, population. Mqurice

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