On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:29:12 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft uses dirty/scare tactics to reverse decisions by OEM's to bundle
> Linux. They are known to have intimidated and punished companies for doing
> so. HP and Lenovo are among those companies which, without any reason,
> conceded and retracted announcements that they would prebundle Linux. This
> happened within hours or days, surely as a result of contacts with
> Microsoft.
Almost certainly, but not for the reasons you want to believe.
The simple fact is, OEM's are the ones threatening Microsoft, not the other
way around. They're using Linux as leverage to get better pricing from
Microsoft. When Microsoft concedes, they drop their "plans" for Linux,
which likely never even existed.
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