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Article #237Re: Anti-competitive behaviour by Microsoft?
From: Ian
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:29
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:29
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:15:04 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote: > In article <c1vrm2$4ci$1@string.physics.ubc.ca>, Bill Unruh > <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> writes > >>Find a supplier who will remove the cost for you. They exist. > > They have, as noted elsewhere in the thread, and are still going to > supply the licence (!) Ah well, it'll be a laugh to install linux on a > machine proudly sporting an eXpee licence. :o) You are still probably paying too much for that machine :-) While they might be reducing the profit they are still making a profit, believe me. Bit like inflating the price than offering a discouint in the sales and telling you how much money you are saving when they could have just sold at that price in the first place. Known as marketing bo**ox in the trade :-) -- IanL ZMS Ltd - Education Management Consultants WWW.thelearningmachine.co.uk WWW.theINGOTs.org
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,79187a13f4e023a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,79187a13f4e023a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-01 15:29:37 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!194.168.4.91.MISMATCH!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.server.ntli.net!newsfe1-win.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworlddottycom.com> Organization: ZMSL Subject: Re: Anti-competitive behaviour by Microsoft? User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-ID: <pan.2004.03.01.23.29.41.785663@ntlworlddottycom.com> Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,demon.tech.pc References: <fjrf$gAeH3OAFwa5@jasper.livjm.ac.uk> <lb8u30hres65naiu6prob92v9sm1cs87v0@4ax.com> <OR87DhA5W1QAFwrR@jasper.livjm.ac.uk> <c1vrm2$4ci$1@string.physics.ubc.ca> <YxAlYXCo23QAFwK0@jasper.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 24 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:29:41 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.106.181.26 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfe1-win 1078183776 81.106.181.26 (Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:29:36 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:29:36 GMT