dpb wrote in :

Patriarch wrote:
dpb wrote in :

John Doe wrote:
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... Ordinary consumers are stuck under Microsoft's thumb,
...

How's that? There's Mac, multiple flavors of Unix and even free
flavors of Linux, et al., ...

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There is now. For a while, it was touch and go and grumble. The
court fight was something to behold, but there were certainly those
who lost heavily in the battles.

There were always alternatives and I personally don't think it was
ever in doubt there would be...

imo, etc., ...

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Yes, there were alternatives. But some of the ways that the pricing was
set, buyers, even of just main boards, still ended up paying for a copy of
Windows...

Many things have changed. But not all.

Patriarch