Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:50:38 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Linux in Mondays NY Times |
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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net wrote:
> And lo, Shawn Leas saith unto me: > > On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 02:21:31PM -0500, Shawn Leas wrote: > > > > > > > To my knowledge, if you sell a single PC with Windows, you must buy a > > > > liscense for ALL of the PCs you sell. This was/should have been a major > > > > point with the justice dept. > This was the case at one time; attention was brought to it, and > apparently MS backed off...a bit, anyway. Not that it wasn't evil > and slimy in the first place. [SNIPPED]
Worse that that. If you buy any Intel processor since the 8086, US$5.00 of the cost is a license fee paid to Micro$haft. Micro$haft claims ownership to the "Intel Architecture", i.e., what used to be called the "IBM-PC/AT". They "purchased" the rights to this design from IBM sometime in the early '70s, waited about 10 years for major developments to be made by Intel and others, then threatened a suit. The settlement was a 5.00 per processor fee to be paid by the end-user.
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