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To: Logos who wrote (6819)	5/10/1998 11:35:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Take AST. A friend of mine bought an AST Pentium 60 with Win95, just after Win95 was introduced. Yet AST layered a totally new interface on top of Win95. MSFT evidently didn't deny them that right, and certainly AST didn't go out of business by not having the standard interface that Win95 is configured with. There's usually two sides to every story, and so far everyone seems automatically sympathetic to Compaq, who isn't exactly a small defenseless company. CPQ is in fact the world's largest PC manufacturer. You can bet that CPQ leverages this fact to deals beneficial to their favor every time they can. As you say, Compaq did a similar thing to someone else. Individuals negotiating on behalf of companies play these sorts of power games all the time, constantly testing each other's power. It's just a fact of corporate life.

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