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This over looks the fact that no white box pc vendor could sell a box without paying a license fee to Microsoft. That is it didn’t matter what OS the buyer wan
by detourdog 2y ago
This over looks the fact that no white box pc vendor could sell a box without paying a license fee to Microsoft.
That is it didn’t matter what OS the buyer wanted to run on the generic PC a license fee was paid
To
Microsoft.
- chihuahua 2y agoThis is incorrect. White box PC vendors could sell as many PCs as they wanted with Linux or any other non-Microsoft OS, and not pay anything to Microsoft for those PCs. But if they did that, they would miss out on certain discounts for Windows Licenses if they also wanted to sell PCs with Windows pre-installed. "Missing out on discounts" is not the same thing as "having to pay a license fee for every machine no matter what".
- paulmd 2y agoNow do this one for AMD - “intel didn’t force you to only dell intel chips, but doing so would lose certain discounts on intel processors if you also wanted to sell pcs with intel processors included.” Anticompetitive or no?
- detourdog 2y agoSorry I must have forgotten that subtle detail. Neither of which Apple is currently doing.