On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:22:58 -0700, "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
> I guess I wasn't explicit enough. Most people who want cars also want an >engine. Some don't. Dealers could sell cars and engines separately. They >just (generally) don't. There is nothing illegal or immoral about this. I used to be a retailer of custom computers. MS used a dirty trick to compete with IBM's OS/2. They said to me as a retailer. You must buy a copy of our OS for EVERY machine you sell. The alternative is to pay full retail for the OSes. That meant a customer who wanted OS/2 had to effectively also buy an unwanted copy of Windows. How could OS/2 compete? -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
