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To: Dragonfly who wrote (1513)	2/19/1999 4:36:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Respond to of 1600

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. <snip> 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. Wrong. Dell, Compaq or anyone else could sell MS software without the licensing agreement they already have. Nothing is preventing them from doing that, except money. They are no different from the computer store down the block where I bought my machine. They will sell you the machine with Windows installed, Linux installed, BeOS installed, OS/2 installed, or no OS installed. They charge you retail - what they pay for it. They don't enter into the licensing deal with MS because it would not be economically viable to do so, since they don't do enough volume.