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From: | Joseph Morris <jpm AT it-he DOT org> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Djgpp dead. [OT] |
Date: | Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:22:53 +0100 |
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J-P wrote: > > IIRC, Viglen and Stone refuse to sell servers and workstations without NT > implicit in the price: some of them have it installed by some BIOS trick > so you don't get CDs to give to your friends^W^W^W^Wkeep somewhere safe. > > Apparently Mi¢ro$oft force them to do this. I think this is actually > against monopoly legislation in the UK.... but I am not a lawyer. In what way is this different to the DRDOS trick of forcing manufacturers to pay for MS-DOS whether or not it was on the machines? Or are they allowed to do this because Caldera settled without actually winning? > > J-P -- JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=- doug AT it-he DOT org Fun things to do with the Ultima games (http://www.it-he.org) Developing a U6/U7 clone (http://fly.to/ire) d+++ e+ N+ T++ Om U1234!56!7'!S'!8!9!KA u++ uC+++ uF+++ uG---- uLB---- uA--- nC+ nR---- nH+++ nP++ nI nPT nS nT wM- wC- y a(YEAR - 1976)
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