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Don't gloss over the fact that Microsoft forbade computer manufacturers to sell a computer without their operating system. They didn't have the option of paying
by gnu8 8y ago
Don't gloss over the fact that Microsoft forbade computer manufacturers to sell a computer without their operating system. They didn't have the option of paying for the license and not installing the OS, or paying for the license but installing a different OS. This was done solely to prevent competing operating systems from gaining any share of the market.
Microsoft is an evil company that must be destroyed.
- golergka 8y ago"Good" and "evil" are leaky and useless abstractions on such scale.
- chx 8y agoNo, they did none of that. Microsoft had a scheme which the OEMs could agree to where they paid a fixed amount of money multiplied by the number of machines sold. Thus they had zero incentive to sell with anything else when they already paid for Windows. And if you wanted to say, I will only pay after say 95% they said, then we will not make this agreement with you, this is only for OEMs who pay after all their computers...