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detourdogyesterday at 9:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

The PC manufacturers had to pay MS for a license no matter what operating system was installed.


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SvenLtoday at 6:45 AM

Didn’t knew that, but only if they also sold windows pc? Like, if a company would only sold blank PCs without any offering associated to MS they wouldn’t need to pay MS anything.

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LocalHyesterday at 10:08 PM

Indeed. Pepperidge Farm remembers Microsoft's campaign against "naked PCs"