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Jon A. Maxwell (jmax...@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:
: ] Yeah, right, like Gateway is the only provider!  Where do you live?  :)
: In my analogy, Gateway is /you/ buying into the city water or
: local power --they /could/ go with out Microsoft, like you /could/
: make your own water, but that ain't happening.

How about this.. You go to a COMPUTER show.. buy you're own motherboard, 
you're own powersupply, videocard, etc.. you never have to TOUCH ms-dos 
OR windows. Microsoft has nothing to do with you. 

I guess folows some form of Darwinism. If you're too stupid to assemble 
your own computer from the ground up using basic parts, you eather A: 
SHouldn't have one, B: Have to put up with what pre-build computer 
manufaacturers give to you. 

And another word to Microsoft bashers... Whatthe hell do you want?? 
10,000 differant equally represented operating systems for the IBM-PC. 
How is it that Mircorsoft is all of the sudden some company set out to 
run your life and computer. Like I said you don't have to buy anything 
from microsoft. No one is making you. The only reason Microsoft is so 
huge is because A LOT OF PEOPLE BOUGHT THEIR PRODUCTS. The same huge mass 
of people who made micro-soft can also BREAK microsoft.   

: One of hundereds, that all agree to Microsoft's terms --so you can
: still shop around on the best deal, but it's still a deal where MS
: gets the money for something you didn't buy (or whatever their scam
: is now that the Justice Department has "warned" them).

: Again, for computers you don't realistically have a choice either,
: because the vendors don't realistically have a choice.  Microsoft is
: the monopoly, like city water.  If Gateway refuses to drink water,
: they die.  Because they have no choice (realistically) neither do
: you.

Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly, actually.. There's Linux, a FREEEEEE 
operating system. (Which is actually only available to computer literate 
people, so again, if you don't know dick about computers, you're probably 
better off with Micrsoft anyways).  OS/2 (whish isn't as popular, but 
once it's running is pretty user firendly) DOn't forget all those DOS 
clones ou there.. DR-DOS, PC-DOS, etc. 

: ] It's not that hard to find a vendor who will accomodate your
: ] special need in the PC world.

: Please give me an example of one that does not agree to Microsoft's
: terms (as in, in the past, making you pay for DOS/Win even though you
: don't want it or now, well, I hear it is something like they have to
: agree to share patents or something).

Yeah, there's quite few suppliers wherre I live (bay area, ca) where you 
walk in,. buy a bare bones system, buy a moniter, and a hard drive, and 
tada you have a computer without windows or dos. It's really not that 
hard to find. It's also cheaper, and in the end your system is much more 
upgradable. And guess what, MICROSOFT DOESN'T RECIEVE A DIME FROM YOU.

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