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

[John Poltorak]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:56:03AM -0500, Erick Andrews wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:36:20 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
> 
> >> > No.  IBM should have continued the fight, in the market and in Court.
> >>
> >> 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."
> >
> 
> Outsourced?  That's interesting.  Who'd they outsource to and do they make 
> money?

I'm not sure how true that is... AFAICR IBM signed some big deal with DELL 
a few years ago to provide components so that you could consider that 
DELLs were now rebadged IBM PCs...

> -- 
> Erick Andrews

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John