On Friday 19 March 2004 05:42 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>
> Anne:
> The OEM price that you are quoting is the price for the OEM version, but
> that is far more than the Dell's and HP's are paying. Back during the days
> of the MS trial and subsequent settlement, it came out that major OEM's
> were paying something on the order of $35 per system for the OS. So if they
> sold a whole bunch at $35, and a lot less at $200, the total_income would
> be (whole_bunch x $35) + (lot_less x $200) for (whole_bunch + lot_less)
> systems. If whole_bunch = 10 x lot_less, then the average price would be
> $50, thereby getting m'learned colleague off of the hook. ("m'learned
> colleague" seems to be the British equivalent to the American "lying
> lawyer". Yeah, I know -- it's an oxymoron.)
> -- cmg
To make matters worse, the OEM's don't include a "real" OS disk with their
machines. The crippled crap disk included is a "recovery" disk which formats
the HD and returns the machine to the "factory" mode. Truly useless, but the
end users pay anyway.
e.
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