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On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> Be corp tried to GIVE their os away as a dual boot w/ Dell,
> and Dell refused. If you can't give your product away, then what further
> proof do you need? Dell wanted it, Be wanted it. Consumers would have
> benefitted as it was going to be a dual boot. Consumers who didn't care
> about Be could have ignored the tiny partition, and it would have
> automatically booted to windows. Obviously, the computer market was as
> free, at the
> time, as Russia was in the 80's, thanks to MS.
I don't see anything you described as coercive. Dell apparently made a
business decision based on their options. How is that unfree?
> > Solaris? Ever hear that Apache, on some variant of Unix, is the most
> > common web server on the internet? Ever hear of IBM selling servers that
> > run Linux instead of a Microsoft OS?
>
> The courts have helped in this. I'm going to laugh out loud if someone
> tries to give MS credit for this.
Sure, I give Microsoft credit for IBM's Linux servers - after all, if MS
didn't have such a shitty OS, IBM probably would not have gone with Linux!
:-D
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