> And lo, Shawn Leas saith unto me:
> > On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 02:21:31PM -0500, Shawn Leas wrote:
> > >
> > > > To my knowledge, if you sell a single PC with Windows, you must buy a
> > > > liscense for ALL of the PCs you sell. This was/should have been a major
> > > > point with the justice dept.
> This was the case at one time; attention was brought to it, and
> apparently MS backed off...a bit, anyway. Not that it wasn't evil
> and slimy in the first place.
[SNIPPED]
Worse that that. If you buy any Intel processor since the 8086, US$5.00
of the cost is a license fee paid to Micro$haft. Micro$haft claims
ownership to the "Intel Architecture", i.e., what used to be called
the "IBM-PC/AT". They "purchased" the rights to this design from IBM
sometime in the early '70s, waited about 10 years for major developments
to be made by Intel and others, then threatened a suit. The settlement
was a 5.00 per processor fee to be paid by the end-user.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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