After takin' a swig o' grog, Larry Qualig belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Secret deals MS uses to control PC companies
>>
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>> | MDAs are not discounts from royalty rates, Norris adamantly maintained,
>> | but "a vehicle that Microsoft used in order for us to perform
>> | activities that benefited them in many ways. It was a vehicle
>> | that also gave royalty reductions that imposed costs on the
>> | PC manufacturer, in order to attain the royalty reductions.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/10/secret_deals_ms_uses/
>
> The year 1999 called. They want their story back.
>
> BTW - How pathetically desperate are you that you sit around and dig up
> stories from the 90's?
True. Microsoft is much more careful nowadays to stick to the rules
when they screw people over.
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I love the smell of source code compiling in the morning.
It smells like... freedom.
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