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		jolt42 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world could run on older hardware if software ... IIRC, Microsoft was also charging Dell for a copy of Windows even if they didn't install it on the PC! And yeah OS/2 was ahead by miles.

cylemons 4 months ago [–]

How was that legal? They were charging dell for something they weren't using?

Ratfor 4 months ago | [–]

It wasn't; see U.S. vs Microsoft.

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