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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SC who wrote (47236)	6/24/2000 1:58:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 74651

Your explanation is one of, if not the best explanation(s) of why some people are upset about most PCs being shipped with with Windows. I benefit from this in a few ways: I enjoy the volume discount negotiated on my behalf by the manufacturer; I get PC compatible with all others; and my Microsoft shares appreciate. I like your cigarette lighter in cars comparison --- bullet-proof logic simple enough for idiots to comprehend. Keep smiling, PW.

To: SC who wrote (47236)	6/25/2000 12:37:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

JC's problem is that he was told one thing by the EULA (that he could return Windows) and then something else when he went to return Windows. --- Resisting the expansion of your car accessory analogy into something more realistic, lets stick with the Windows as cigarette lighter. At least the cigarette lighter is yours to sell if you don't want it. --- If I go buy a music CD and I don't like it or no longer want it, I'm free to sell it under the fair use doctrine. MS has managed to skirt that by a clever manipulation of laws, *which btw, only a monopoly could get away with. -JCJ