[Am-info] Gateway Official Hits Microsoft Licensing In Testimony

[Mitch Stone]

And according to the Yahoo story,

"Gateway also faulted another provision of the new licensing agreement, 
which requires PC makers to pay a Windows royalty on every PC shipped, 
even if it didn't include Windows. To top it off, to qualify for market 
development funds, PC makers have to put a Microsoft OS on every PC. As a 
result, trying to sell non-Windows PCs, or even PCs without software, is a 
financial loser for computer makers."

My eyes practically fell out of my head when I read this. Wasn't this 
tactic expressly  prohibited by the 1995 consent decree?

On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 03:34 PM, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:

> From: Computerworld_Daily@Computerworld.com
>
> Gateway official hits Microsoft licensing terms in court testimony
>
> Gateway's general counsel said Microsoft's new "uniform" licensing terms
> are more restrictive on PC makers than the ones they had reached in
> separate agreements with the company.
>
> http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO69541_NLTPM%2C00.html
>
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