Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> I was thinking more "we'll give you this big bulk discount on a bunch of 
> Windows CDs, but only if you sign this agreement not to offer any other 
> OS"...

Actually, that wasn't the deal. The deal was "we'll give you a volume 
discount if you pay MS for a copy of Windows on every machine you sell." 
  They could offer other OSes too, but they'd still have to pay for 
Windows on that machine.  So MS could track how much they were owed by 
how many machines were sold.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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