Re: Microsoft: OEM choice would be a "disaster"

[ethical@ibm.net]

In <366E6D7D.EBD37EC6@mcs.com>, on 12/09/98 at 08:02 AM,
   Steve Cohen <stevecoh@mcs.com>(quoting Christopher Pall) said:

|> (didn't the OEM buy the software, hence they can do whatever
|>they want with it? anyway)

Actually, no.  Microsoft licenses rather than sells.

|>What's strange is the character of this response. It's all italics,
|>bolded and hyphenated in strange places. It's a clearly meant to be
|>overly dramatic and sweeping.

|As for the italicization and all that, I think it shows how badly
|Microsoft needs to discredit this witness.

No, I think it shows that Microsoft employees are not allowed to use
non-Microsoft word processors, and the output reflects the quality of
the tool employed.  Those odd mid-line hyphens are the "Microsoft
hyphen," or, in shorthand, the "MShy-phen"

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