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To: HerbVic who wrote (9896)	3/23/1998 9:54:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (3) of 213173

Looks like Apple would do well to cultivate a rogue Wintel box maker. <<They can't! It would cost them too much to offer OS options on new machines, because Microsoft contracts with them on the number of boxes manufactured, not Windows installed. They would still be paying Microsoft for the units containing other OS's.>> Imagine. A somewhat standard Intel box maker who is not beholden to Windows. They can use install whatever they want and not pay MSFT. Of course, how does Apple benefit? They give away a trial version of Rhapsody-lite with handful of apps (word processor, e-mail client, internet) with a coupon to buy full-function Rhapsody. The internet application has bookmarks to a host of official and unofficial Rhapsody user/shareware sites. So the user will have a hefty supply of shareware. The user always has option to buy and run Windows if they are not happy. We can only speculate that satisfaction will be guaranteed. -Bill_H

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