__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Friday 20 April 2007 18:32 \__
> From: Bill Gates
> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 1996 10:11 PM
> To: Joachim Kempin
> Cc: Paul Maritz; Marshall Brumer; Rich Tong; Jonathan Roberts; David Heiner
> Subject: Intel payments for logo usage
>
> ..
>
> We could use MDA incentive to convince Oems to refer to the PCs they
> license Windows on as WindowsPC's rather than IBM compatible. We could
> incent them to use this designation sort of like we do the logo. If we
> were successful the world would change the way it talks about PCs to
> Windows PCs.
>
> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04490.pdf
Nowadays it's just "computers". As Microsoft virtually forces all OEMs to
preinstall Windows, a PC is assumed to be a Windows PC. Linux is sometimes
referred to as a "Linux box". And an Apple Macintosh is "a Mac".
Monoculture leads to lack of judgment.
--
~~ With kind regards
Roy S. Schestowitz | Useless fact: Falsity implies anything
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