[Rant] Microsoft extend their monopolistic behaviours (again) | ANN.lu |
Posted on 11-Aug-2002 13:33 GMT by Cyberwlf | 56 comments View flat View list |
Microsoft have cracked down on retailers trying to sell alternate OS's when they sign a contract to sell Windoze. (This theoretically effecting people selling Amithlon pre-installed, or the likes). Essentially saying... :
(from slashdot.org) "Some Sys Admin sent in an email that he got from Dell which basically says Microsoft will no longer allow Dell to sell PCs without an operating system. " - But if you think this was only Dell, the wording seems to effect all retailers, read article for more information: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/1420208.
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Posted by hgm on 12-Aug-2002 06:33 GMT | In reply to Comment 17 (0): Well spoken. The Linux system is a very good alternate route for free computing.
Many big names jump the bandwagon. IBM HP SUN to name a few.
Amiga OS 4.0 is not multi-user.There is no memory protection is the sense UNIX or Linux
has. So OS 4.0 is only ,for now, an upgrade port to a new processor, which is imo the wrong way to go. x86 is the way to go. Mainstream. Unfortunatly Motorola did not seize it's chances in the '80.
AOS will die like BEOS. How many copies AOS 4.0 has to be sold before
the balance tells it is profitable? |
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