11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
11:38 a.m.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
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. I'd say
that veers into "stealing" territory.