I must apologize... 10100
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On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:39:20 -0500,
it's as much "riding on the coattails" as a dual boot would be.
so what? it's still "riding on MS's coattails." to use your phrase.
If you had a valid point, I'd need a valid rebuttal. As it is, this is a "knife the baby" moment.
you claim.
Not that it's relevent. Irrespective of whether Hitachi was getting Beos for free or not, it was Hitachi's decision, not Microsofts. Or should be.
get caught at, in the sense of getting publicity about it. MS, like they so often do, tried to keep it quiet. Probably didn't want to stir up the rest of their OEM victi^H^H^H "Partners"
YOu inability to grasp simple english isn't my concern. You constant MS cheerleading is amusing though.
We don't know what would have happened had BeOS achieved some exposure in the Consumer Debt desktop market. Even 0.001% of the market would have kept them...
Not all contractual obligations are legal.
I am happy to point out how signing contracts with MS can negatively impact a company.
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:11:12 -0500, what you really should be saying, is why does MS whine when Dell wants to let someone else ride...
"Let"? it's not their call.
You mean like Dell wanted to sell machines with Linux only?
MS was slapped over the "thou shall have no other browser before IE" bits in their contracts.
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