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To: rudedog who wrote (11957)	10/30/1998 3:58:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) of 74651

It's an old story, rudedog ( the actual deal, not the news on it), more relevant to the ghost of DR-DOS/Caldera suit that the DoJ action. Vobis, allegedly #1 European OEM at some point in time. Joachim Kempin, Microsoft's senior vice president of OEM marketing and sales, told Vobis officials that Microsoft would charge Vobis $9 per machine to carry MS-DOS only, but $18 per machine if it wanted to carry MS-DOS on the same machine with DR-DOS. These per-processor pricing tactics were subsequently made illegal by the 1995 Consent Decree Microsoft signed with the Department of Justice. ( from zdnet.com. ) Maybe Red Herring followed up more on this. The last review I saw of The Microsoft Files talked about this Gates / Neukom / unnamed female Microsoft executive triangle as a central element, which sounded more entertaining if less legally relevant. For that Bill, anyway. Cheers, Dan.

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