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echo: consumer_report
to: TODD COPELAND
from: BILL MITCHELL
date: 1997-12-26 12:37:00
subject: Win95 price

 TC> with Win95! Also, it's not "free enterprise" when MS tells
 TC> retailers that they cannot sell Win95 w/o selling IE with it.
 TC> Let me clearify what MS is doing. XYZ company sells the only
 TC> milk in the world. Several other companies sell good bread.
 TC> Now XYZ starts selling a lesser quality bread and tells
 TC> retailers that unless then ONLY sell XYZ bread they won't get
 Their tatics sound so much like their older tatics used to push MSDOS and 
MSWindows. They licensed by the number of computers you sold, not the 
installations you did. That resulted in any compeditor's software being an 
extra charge, and MS still got their cut. The result was everybody got the 
"free" microsoft software.
They were caught and got their wrists slapped, so they are doing it again.
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