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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1487)	2/17/1999 9:23:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1600

Makers will charge you $X for Windows, even if it isn't installed. Do they HAVE to do that? OF COURSE NOT! They more than make up for it on what they charge other people. Complain to them if you don't like it. Okay. In the meantime though, I'm going to upload all of my unused and non-refundable Microsoft operating systems and applications to the web so that someone who has actual use for it can just have my license. I am encouraging others to do the same. -JCJ

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1487)	2/17/1999 11:06:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 1600

Do they HAVE to do that? OF COURSE NOT! They more than make up for it on what they charge other people. Complain to them if you don't like it. The don't have to, But they want to, to pass on their Microsoft tax to the consumer, which was part of the deal.. that when they signed.. to get a good discount.. they'd have to agree to.

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1487)	2/19/1999 4:23:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.