Look into the history of1. MS-DOS (where they got it, how they sold it to IBM, how that went on).
2. the 'MS tax' making it economic nonsense to sell computers without MS operating systems. (They old one - where manufacturers could only get decent prices for windows if they paid per computer sold - regardless of if it shipped with windows or not - that was stopped because it was deemed abuse of a monopoly position).
3. the way they dealt with Netscape, which was part smart business sense, but contained quite a bit of monopolistic abuse.
(2. the 'MS tax' making it economic nonsense to sell computers without MS operating systems. (They old one - where manufacturers could only get decent prices for windows if they paid per computer sold - regardless of if it shipped with windows or not - that was stopped because it was deemed abuse of a monopoly position).
3. the way they dealt with Netscape, which was part smart business sense, but contained quite a bit of monopolistic abuse.
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all foreskin of the apocalypse,
Thu 9 Apr 2009, 0:20,
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