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

[Erick Andrews]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:36:20 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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>John Poltorak wrote:
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>> 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.
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>Yeah, and now that PC Division, after losing billions every year, has been
>"outsourced."
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Outsourced?  That's interesting.  Who'd they outsource to and do they make 
money?

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Erick Andrews