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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.08.12 07:54 AM, John J. Urbaniak typed: ============

>But Gates can't put Wal-Mart out of business.  In fact, I'd wager that 
>Wal-Mart
>might well tell Gates to shove it and sell nothing but OS-less systems.

   Like I said before, Wal-Mart doesn't have any inherent problems with 
Microsoft, they just want everyone to know that they won't be pushed 
around. If Microsoft picks a fight with Wal-Mart somebody's going to get 
hurt pretty badly. I'd be happy to see it happen, personally.




======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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   and you don't see anything come out."
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