Roedy Green wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:50:07 -0700, "David Schwartz"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
> said :
>> There is no different to Microsoft beween a bare computer and one
>> preloaded with Linux or FreeBSD. One can quickly be converted to
>> other with minimal cost of effort. In the market, bare PCs really do
>> compete with Windows PCs.
> You think it is OK to force someone into a choice of committing a
> criminal act with the alternative of losing their established business
> and having to put 8 employees out of work. What religion do you belong
> to?
You often say things that just seem to have come out of the blue with no
connection whatsoever to anything else. What criminal act was someone forced
into committing? What are you talking about?
If you have a business that sells PCs only because those PCs come
preloaded with Windows, and without Windows to offer, there would be no
market, then you have a business that exists at Microsoft's pleasure. The
same thing would be the case with any piece of software by any manufacturer.
Now, not all manufacturers would use their leverage, of course. But
don't you think it would be pretty stupid of them not to? Why shouldn't they
get from you, and why aren't they entitled to, as much as the ability to
sell Windows is worth? Since, by your own admission, it's what made it
possible for you to be in business?
You say you couldn't stay in business without the ability to sell
Windows wholesale. That means that every customer you get, in some part you
owe to Microsoft. Why shouldn't you pay them their fair share of that?
DS
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