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A Crack in the Wall
By Jean-Louis Gass�e
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You're the CEO of a PC OEM, delivering some great news to Wall
Street: "In an effort to offer greater variety and performance to the
customer, our factory now installs three operating systems on the
hard disk -- Windows, Linux, and the BeOS. The reaction has been
spectacular. Customers love having a choice of OS, and the press --
from John Dvorak in PC Magazine to John Markoff in the New York Times
to Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal -- has heralded us for
our bold move. This is a great step forward for the consumer and for
the industry. Oh, and by the way, we lost $50 million since we no
longer qualify for Windows rebates. But it's a sacrifice for the
common good."
You're now the ex-CEO of a PC OEM.
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Bjorn
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