On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:36:53 -0700, "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
> As for it being illegal, it was illegal only because if was Microsoft >doing it. There's nothing illegal about a car dealer not selling a car >without an engine. But that is not what was happening. It was not Microsoft selling computers with MS OSs. MS was arm-twisting retailers like me to bundle a copy of Windows with every sale whether the customer wanted it or not. I think some imagine a computer is worthless without Windows. That gave their OS a grossly unfair price advantage. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
