[Am-info] An excerpt from an email sent by Dell to all of its customers:

Paul Rickard pr@ms-bc.com
Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:26:43 -0400


========== On 2002.08.12 07:47 AM, John J. Urbaniak typed: ============

>Microsoft has not yet forced the hard drive manufacturers to pay them for 
>Windows.  I
>suppose that someday they will try to do that, but as for now, my systems 
>are 100%
>Windows-royalties-free.

   Dangerous idea.... I hope nobody from Microsoft is reading the list.


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