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Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

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From: Sam Trenholme
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 08:07
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>  If you don't like them, or what they do vote with your checkbook.  Nobody 
>is forcing you to but their products.

This is incorrect. Almost all laptops and most desktop computer 
systems being sold today have dos/windows pre-installed, wheather you 
like it or not. You have to go out of your way to buy a computer without 
windows on it. I managed to do this by building my own computer, but I 
was forced to have a chip with the !@#$ windows logo on it because I 
saved money and bought an AMD instead of an Intel chip.

With AMD concentrating on optimizing their new chips for windows, amoung 
other things, Linux users are paying for fluff that is totally 
unnnecessary in Linux, becuase of the existance of Windows.

People will soon start having to buy computers with keyboards that have the 
stupid windows logos on them-- that'll make them feel pretty strange 
running a non-windows system, to sat the least.

Microsoft is becoming more and more of a monopoly.
-- 
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Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
Date: 7 Aug 1995 08:07:45 GMT
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