11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
6:21 p.m.
On 11/10/11 2:38 PM, Jason McBrien wrote:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Ian King<IanK at
vulcan.com> wrote:
In general, it's still pretty difficult (wonder why?)
And this is not because of lack of consumer demand for (e.g. Linux);
when Dell opened their Salesforce-based customer feedback site, it was
the #1 request even back then (according to Marc Benioff in "Behind the
Cloud").
You're relying on the ruling of a judge who
was found to be prejudiced in
the case and removed? And "steal[ing]" is a pretty harsh word to use in
relation to the pricing policy of a product you were not compelled to buy.
-- Ian
" In addition, Microsoft charges a lower price to OEMs who agree to ship all
but a minute fraction of their machines with an operating system pre-
installed."
For a while, you simply couldn't buy a PC without Windows. Even if you were
going immediately uninstall Windows and install Linux, or Solaris x86, or
OS/2, or BeOS. This directly affected a company I worked for who bought
commodity PCs to run various Solaris x86 staging and development
environments. The net result of their pricing policy was everyone who bought
a computer was charged for Windows, whether they used it or not.
That is still the case.
--Toby
I'd say
that veers into "stealing" territory.