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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
MSFT 496.920.0%Nov 7 9:30 AM EST
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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1487)2/19/1999 4:23:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Read Replies (1) of 1600
 

True. But that's because the top-tier players willingly sign licesning agreements with MS which gives them huge volume discounts. The makers do good in the deal.

Ha! Until you can cite specifics about how much they pay and how much they would pay otherwise, you cannot backup this statement. Furthermore, since such information is carefully guarded, you cannot cite such specifics. So, you are speculating.

What is known, however, is that Microsoft was restraining trade in this manner by forcing per-CPU pricing, an illegal activity- and will soon be barred from their current illegal pricing deals.

Its not the OEMs that decide this, its Microsoft, because they have to offer windows as an option... MS's response? Well, if you want to sell it, you can only sell it and no competitors.

That's restraint of trade. Its not a discount, its a sum of extortion if you try to allow other OSs on your boxes.
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