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 S> At risk of starting the FTC thing again.......i just 
 S> read through most of the
 S> ads in the December Computer Shopper (mine comes by boat...OK?).
 S>  
 S> "* includes MSDOS5 and Windows 3.1!" 
 S>  
 S> got pretty boring by the 300th ad. A couple mentioned other OS's
being
 S> available...usually OS/2 was first mentioned as an alternative. 
 S>  
 S> But why virtually NO vendors will offer OS/2 as an option has me
wondering.
 S> People who use OS/2 almost have to go out and *find* it. 
 S> I don't blame IBM for
 S> this completely. The MS lock on the mail-order PC market *is* a
virtual
 S> monopoly. No one else gets a look in. 

 S> How can OS/2 get vendors to ship it with systems? I 
 S> don't know what the answer
 S> is: make it $10 a copy to OEMs like MS has done with their
software? 

How about this:

  Since the rumor is that Microsoft charges $8 to include DOS and
Windows
  with systems if the $8 is paid for all systems, IBM could charge $8
more
  to include OS/2 2.1 with all systems which are shipped with DOS and
Windows
  and then avoid paying the $20 or so licensing fee to Microsoft for
the
  DOS/Windows code in OS/2 2.x as the user already has a license to
this
  code because regular DOS/Windows are included with the machine.

In other words, use Microsoft's $8 licensing against them.



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