Re: Gateway to consumer -- Microsoft mandates we ship OS and apps with every computer

["Norm" <normanmo@clark.net>]

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:12:23 -0400 (EDT), James Love wrote:

>RE: Gateway refusal to sell system without windows based upon Microsoft
>obligations
>
>This is a letter from Henry Guidry.  He provides a response from Gateway
>2000, when he tried to buy a Pentium II computer without Windows, to
>test Linux, a non-Microsoft operating system.  Phillip Warren, a Gateway
>2000 employee, wrote Henry on March 22, 1998, to say: "Our agreement
>with Microsoft mandates that we send every system with an Operating
>system with Application software."  I am forwarding this to DOJ and EC
>antitrust investigators. 


     What makes this even a little better is the addition of
"application software".  That makes it more than just a case of M$
trying to maintain their OS monopoly, IMO it's 'smoking gun' evidence
for tying.

 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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