In the early 80's Microsoft practically gave away their PCs and all their software to many government offices. They even included the bookcase for all those maroon boxes with gold lettering. Out went the Wang terminals, in came the PCs.
I imagine it was in response to Apple outfitting many of the school systems in the country with Apple ][ setup at just above cost. It took MS decades to overcome that head-start in education. Back them, there was a dichotomy between educational computing and business. Apple even had some university's telling students that had to have a Macintosh laptop for some courses. The games they play. Apple DID have a assembly facility in Ireland in the late eighties. I had always assumed that was still in operation. No longer, apparently. It makes sense to keep their overseas billions there. Easier to pay the Chinese and other manufacturers from there rather than sending them good old US currency! On May 20, 2013, at 16:23 , P.J. Alling wrote: > On 5/19/2013 11:26 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: >> On 2013-05-19 19:17, P.J. Alling wrote: >>> On 5/8/2013 3:56 AM, David Mann wrote: >>>> On May 8, 2013, at 4:45 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Not to mention what are you going to do if the FBI decides Adobe's >>>>> cloud is the new "Megaupload"? >>>> Adobe's pockets are probably deep enough that the Feds would have to >>>> actually do some due diligence first. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>> Deep pockets help after the fact, not necessary before. >> >> Bullshit. Deep pockets lead to "grease", in this case, avoiding the "after >> the fact" completely > > Many large corporations do use exactly that. However you could have told > that to Microsoft. They didn't actually start that behavior until after the > anti trust action. I guess they thought that they were immune. I'm not > saying they weren't evil and corrupt, just not in that way until after they > got burned. Joseph McAllister Pentaxian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
