On 12/8/05, Jonathon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chadf wrote: > > > Care to give any evidence at all that this happened? > > Personal experience. >
So Microsoft closed you down by charging you $100 for every computer with no OS, $200 for every computer with a competitors OS, and then, when you refused to pay it, Steve Ballimer and Bill Gates pulled up to your shop in a truck and loaded up all your money, the remaining stock of computers, and striped the store of its shelves, wiring, etc.? I don't doubt that Microsoft makes it difficult for computer stores to sell computers without Windows. But I don't for a second believe they take your stuff when you close down. That's not only illegal, it's impossible. Now, if you owed MS money, then, yeah, they can make you pay them back for that, and maybe even repossess stuff you bought from them on credit and didn't pay for, but that's not the same as your claim that "the vendor was shut down,and all assets went to Microsoft." Give me one shread of evidence that this ever happened. Something I can see, not just your claim of personal experience. If it really did happen to you, show me something to prove it. Send me a link to a story on it. Surely a Microsoft van dragging away your framed first dollar from your newly shutdown store would make headlines. Or the MS enforcers running down the street with your last server hoisted over their shoulders - that would make the news, don't you think? I mean, no offense, but I could claim that Bill Gates personally sent me a check for $500,000.00 just because I use Windows and play Xbox, but that doesn't mean you're gonna believe me. Your claim that Microsoft not only closed your shop, but ceised your assets is equally as bold. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
