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

[John J. Urbaniak]

John Poltorak wrote:

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> There is no debate about that here. The only problem is getting the msg
> out. Microsoft seems to have effectively silenced all opposition so there
> is no competitor around whom Microsoft dissentors can unite in an effort
> to be heard.
>
> The big PC boys don't want to upset Microsoft by offering naked PCs
> because they will be punished as IBM was by chosing to offer an
> alternative. The courts should have punished Microsoft very heavily for
> doing what it did to IBM when any semblance of an alternative was snuffed
> out.

No.  IBM should have continued the fight, in the market and in Court.  But IBM sold out.

It remains to be seen what Gerstner got in return for his betrayal.

John