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

[Erick Andrews]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:56:47 -0400 (EDT), Erick Andrews wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:36:03 -0700, Mitch Stone wrote:
>
>>Be that as it may, the OEM in this instance is Microtel, not Wal-Mart. We 
>>can already see that Microsoft's license with Microtel prohibits them from 
>>offering the same box both with and without Windows. I'm wondering if 
>>their contract with Dell isn't very similar, and only looks different 
>>because Dell allows customers to configure their boxes and Microtel does 
>>not.
>
>However, it's not the "same box".
>
>I for one have not seen the contract between Microtel and Microsoft.
>
>Hey, here's a WAG:  maybe "Napoleonic Law" precludes such a
>contract?  ISTR that Microtel is in France.  Oui?
>

I just looked up "Carrefour", you may know as the "WalMart" of France,
on Google, and here's a (rough) translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://news.zdnet.fr/zdnetfr/news/story/0,,t140-s2112133,00.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcarrefour%2Bfrance%2Bmicrotel%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8

Interesting.

-- 
Erick Andrews