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Joseph T. Malloy wrote:
] >] But you are not FORCED to buy a Gateway.
] >] God. This is so simple and you just don't get it.

] >Who doesn't get it?  Hell, you aren't forced to use city water --you
] >can always catch and store rainwater, and filter the stuff out of it,
] >and add chlorine to kill germs, and add flourine to make you teeth
] >stronger, etc.  You /could/, but you aren't going to.

] 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 using half a brain.  I guess I should have spelled it out
for you.)

] >You can generate your own electricity too, so what the heck does it
] >matter it the power company says you have to give it a key to your
] >house (or any other crazy demand, like Microsoft makes)?  You always
] >have a choice, dummy!

] And Gateway is the only supplier of PC's, right, gotcha.  (Boy, that
] Gateway must be rolling in dough with a franchise like that!)

You know a provider that doesn't agree to Microsoft's deals?  Please
Tell!  It's not that Gateway is the only supplier, but that all the
suppliers (that matter) have to agree to Microsoft's terms --they
might as well be one supplier.

] Look, the obvious thing to most people is that Gateway is just one of
] hundreds of suppliers of PC's.  You don't like the fact that they bundle
] Windows with the computers?  You look for another manufacturer.

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).

As in, you can move to a different part of the country, but you still
have city water (just a different city!). Duh.

] If I don't like the water they city provides or the eletricity
] supplied by CMP, realistically speaking, I *don't* have a choice in
] the matter (except by byzantine ways involving a ballot box, and
] even that doesn't usually work!).

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.

] 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).

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See, this unoriginal copy just doesn't work;  IBM just isn't the
antichrist like Microsoft is, so people just think you're a big dummy
that spends his time playing with Little Beavis.

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