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

[John J. Urbaniak]

John Poltorak wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:02:11AM -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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> > John Poltorak wrote:
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> > No.  IBM should have continued the fight, in the market and in Court.
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> If they had continued the fight in the market the PC company would have
> gone bust because its Windows licenses would have cost so much more than
> everyone elses. No one else was interested in offering an alternative to
> Windows. From IBM's perspective the PC division was more important than
> the division which produced OS/2.

Yeah, and now that PC Division, after losing billions every year, has been
"outsourced."

>From IBM's perspective, it was a terribly wrong decision, as betrayals and
sellouts always are.  Someday IBM stockholders will be outraged.

John