After takin' a swig o' grog, tblanchard001@xxxxxxxxx belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> On Jun 14, 1:30 am, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > A while
>> > back, MS sent letters to various VARs and OEMs warning them that
>> > computers purchased with Linux were being purchased just so pirated
>> > Windows could be installed on them. They were urged to ship only
>> > Windows systems because of this. Its difficult to find references
>> > for this nowdays, so I don't think they are beating that particular
>> > drum anymore (who would take it seriously anyway), but I remember
>> > reading a copy of the letter.
>>
>> Not that I don't trust you - I do - but get back to me when you find a link
>> to such a letter.
>
> Here's a link to the page I found.
> http://web.archive.org/web/20000818081805/http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/nakedPC.htm
Cool. We had seen that and laughed a lot about in COLA a few years
back. In fact, it was laughed about in so many IT web venues that
Microsoft yanked the page so that people like DFS could claim there was
never any such stupid thing put out by Microsoft.
Good to see someone archived it for posterity.
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Tux rox!
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