Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 12:31:53 08/11/04
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On August 11, 2004 at 14:29:41, Frank Phillips wrote: >... > >Fair points. > >Luckily I can still buy a different car with a different radio, for example. Or >indeed a different car because I want a different radio. Yes, and likewise you can buy Dell/IBM/Toshiba system with Linux preinstalled. And probably that will be differently configured system, exactly like you'll have to buy different car if you want particular radio. >I did not know about Windows covering up faulty hardware - so computer suppliers >can make money out of selling shoddy goods. Yes, and Windows contains workarounds for bugs in software applications as well. Not only for Microsoft applications -- people who looked at the leaked Windows source found workarounds for tens of 3rd party products. >Yes, M9.2 (at least) emptied LG CD ROM bioses. Not sure if this was entirely >the fault of the software. IIRC, I think the CD responded in an atypical, if >not wrong, manner to a software probe. Yes, problem may be in the hardware, but often it's possible to change the software so the problem does not manifest itself. Average user doesn't want to ship his PC to the manufacturer so his CD drive would be replaced. He wants to be able just to use it. >Nice image of shops selling (broken) hardware as a way of making money out of >the 'free' installed software......but does this not illustrate that MS are >subsidising computer sellers in order to maintain their strangle-hold on the >market ;-) Co-bundling is illegal of course, in some countries. OEMs choose the prices, not MS, and there are lot of them, and they are (supposedly) independent ones. By settlement terms MS is forced to license its software to the top 20 OEMs on the unifom terms. Thanks, Eugene >Frank
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