Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 12:55:45 08/12/04
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On August 12, 2004 at 14:37:14, Ed Schröder wrote: >On August 12, 2004 at 13:22:51, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>That's not really the problem. The problem is about abuse of power by one >>company that has repeatedly proven that it does not hesitate to break the law >>whenever it sees an opportunity to get more control over the world. Now that a >>strong alternative exists, why are we still giving our money and support to the >abuser? > >For which misuse of power the EU recently penalized MS for 500 million euro. > >As a frequent buyer of new hardware I estimate I have at least paid 10 times for >W98/XP while I did not want to have it. It's almost impossible here to buy a new >PC without Windows. > >Ed Ed, as I posted in that thread several times, in the USA large manufacturers are selling PCs without Windows preinstalled. If situation in Europe is different, that is not MS fault. I previous posts I gave some numbers and speculated why manufacturers are preferring to sell Windows-only systems: http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?381764 http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?381847 Thanks, Eugene
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