Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Roedy Green]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:22:58 -0700, "David Schwartz"
<davids at webmaster.com> wrote or quoted :

>    I guess I wasn't explicit enough. Most people who want cars also want an 
>engine. Some don't. Dealers could sell cars and engines separately. They 
>just (generally) don't. There is nothing illegal or immoral about this.

I used to be a retailer of custom computers.  MS used a dirty trick to
compete with IBM's OS/2.  They said to me as a retailer. You must buy
a copy of our OS for EVERY machine you sell.  The alternative is to
pay full retail for the OSes.

That meant a customer who wanted OS/2 had to effectively also buy an
unwanted copy of Windows. How could OS/2 compete?
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