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

[John Poltorak]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:45:00AM -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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> Felmon Davis wrote:
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> >
> > I hope so but this hypothetical scenario assumes both sufficient
> > demand for other operating systems and a good cost/profit balance:
> > OEMs must find that the market is willing to bear whatever it costs
> > them to install Linux, OS/2 or whatever. (I'm having a hard time
> > filling out the 'whatever' with plausible candidates.)
> >
> 
> The "cost" should be the true cost, not only the cost of installing, but
> the cost of supporting and maintaining.
> 
> I have a user of my OS/2 system which has been running heavily for more
> than *three years* with not one, single crash, blue screen, reboot, or
> re-install.
> 
> So what is the "true cost" for that customer's system compared to what
> they would have spent on a Windows product?

Of course this is one very good reason why retailers would not want to 
pre-install OS/2 as it would deprive them of a huge revenue stream which 
is generated by support services and upgrades associated with Windows 
PCs.

 
> John


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John