"Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Microsoft had something you need so badly that you could not go into
>> business without it. So they demanded from you that you pay them what
>> their
>> software was actually worth to you. That is not extortion. Everyone who
>> sells something tries to get the maximum possible value for it.
> If a company wants to be paid for things it didn't deliver, then I think
> that is extortion. Microsoft want te be paid a license on windows for
> P.C.'s that were sold without windows.
I think you need to look up "extortion" in a dictionary. I can walk up
to you and say "if you want me to mow your lawn, you must pay me $1 every
time you smoke a cigarette". So long as you can say "no" and all that
happens is that I don't mow your lawn (which I have no obligation to do
anyway), it isn't extortion.
The funny thing is that if Microsoft really had a monopoly on x86
operating systems, their deal would have been fair. Since you can't use a
computer without an operating system and theirs would have been the only
one.
DS
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