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.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/10/secret_deals_ms_uses/
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| "Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using
| online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the virtues
| of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins, and it
| was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their numbers
| and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned dummies who
| liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and Windows wont
| he operating-system war through fifth-column tactics"
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http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html
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