Re: Evil Designers Guide to Copying Patents

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:13:12 +0000 (UTC), don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Don
Klipstein) Gave us:

That was first and maybe mainly noted to apply back when the current
version of Windows was 3.1 or something like that.
How the "Microsoft Tax" worked, at least at some critical time: In
order to sell computers with a MS OS installed, a computer seller had to
pay Microsoft on basis of number of computers sold regardless of OS or
lack thereof, as opposed to sales of copies and/or installations of MS
operating systems.


You forgot "In order to get 'Da gud price'".

In order to get a better price schedule, retailers had to make
certain commitments.
.

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