From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost.localdomain(c716099-a.rchdsn1.tx.home.com[24.7.105.70]) (1437 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 15:12:00 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from localhost (cpt.kirk@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04506 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 11:17:01 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: cpt.kirk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 11:17:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Wood X-Sender: cpt.kirk@localhost.localdomain To: Speakup Mail List Subject: Re: down for the count In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Actually, many times you do end up paying for a M$ liscence anyway, but at least your making a statement about it. You see M$ offers (or used to offer) a lower cost per lisense if one was purchased for every machine produced. This was supposed to be on account of easier auditing. But the US government called it monopoly manipulation. I don't know if M$ continues the practice or if Dell is bound by such a deal. Again, part of the M$ stratagy of hiding what companies pay for a lisense so they can shaft some. -- Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net ------------------ Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead