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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18770)	4/28/1998 3:22:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

They don't have to cut off an OEM. They could raise the price of Windows by $10 a copy. They could ship Windows 98 to them about a month later than everyone else. They could not share information about how Windows works with certain components. I'm sure there's a hundred things they could do to cause various levels of damage to the OEMs.

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18770)	4/28/1998 4:42:00 AM
From: damniseedemons	Respond to of 24154

Jerry, sounded to me like you were saying that an OEM should call Microsoft's bluff by saying "No to Windows and YES to Linux." If so, then I think their sales would approach zero. But looks like you changed with this post and are now saying an OEM should call Microsoft's bluff in order to get the DOJ more involved (which is what I said would happen). >...cause one of Microsoft's key partners dedicate itself to helping to construct an architecture around a rival OS to the exclusion of Windows. Microsoft could potentially lose access to huge swaths of customers. No. That OEM would lose all their customers to another OEM. So the Windows license gets sold, only difference being whether it's from Compaq or Dell (for example). Microsoft has the key product here, not the PC OEMs who sell commodity boxes. I doubt very seriously that such a risk is really worth taking Indeed. It would be beyond stupid for one of the PC makers to enter this holy war thing against Microsoft. And you know, hated as Microsoft is, the company has been good to/for the box makers.