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The PC manufacturers had to pay MS for a license no matter what operating system was installed.
by detourdog 7mo ago
The PC manufacturers had to pay MS for a license no matter what operating system was installed.
- LocalH 7mo agoIndeed. Pepperidge Farm remembers Microsoft's campaign against "naked PCs"
- SvenL 7mo agoDidn’t knew that, but only if they also sold windows pc? Like, if a company would only sold blank PCs without any offering associated to MS they wouldn’t need to pay MS anything.
- detourdog 7mo agoThat was the what the trial about. If you wanted to contract with MS you had to pay for a license on every box shipped. Dell, Compaq, Gateway, HP, IBM, Acer, and others had to sign the contract or ship only alternate OS’s If one sold a computer with OS/2 they also paid for a windows license.