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Originally Posted by Eronysis
Pray tell how M$ could ban anyone from anything not directly
involving their own IP? or do you mean that M$ no longer wants to sell versions of windows OTHER than Xp? That may be slightly true but hardly surprising...
They would pull their Windows OEM license. This would be rather bad for the company, because most people wouldn't know how or care to know how to use UNIX. I've seen people think that the entire computer was rubbish just because Windows wouldn't work. In fact, Wal-Mart sold really cheap computers a while ago, that were running Linux a while ago. Linux was removed from the computer, and Windows was put on.
It's rather unfortunate, but it seems that Windows XP is a requirement for Dick and Jane aoluser's computer. No offense to AOL users, of course. So if Microsoft pulls your OEM license, then that company would be in trouble if they wanted to market to the general public.
Penguincomputing.com does sell computers with Linux pre-loaded, of course I don't know how much they cost.