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Article #303Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
From: John Higdon
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:00
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:00
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In article <i2298i$45c$3@news.eternal-september.org>, sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com (David Kaye) wrote: > Hardware vendors have been free to install any OS they wanted. And for a > brief window of time, they could install a MacOS -- until Steve Jobs came > back > and killed that program. I do recall the agreements Microsoft had with vendors: install Windows exclusively or loose the low-pricing on your wholesale agreement. Indeed, when we bought large quantities of PCs from Mini Micro, they would wipe the Windows from them for us, but they would not give us any price break (since they were claiming to be selling Windows PCs exclusively and they needed their quantities to match). > The trouble with vendors putting a Linux flavor on their computers is who is > going to support them? I will. And who else? Linux is so quick and easy to install that we didn't care if the computers came with it or not. What annoyed us was having to pay the Microsoft Tax. And for that money, we didn't even get a licensed copy of Windows. -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last
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