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Re: M$ IL latest craze



On Wed, 26 May 1999, 23:08 Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

GBY>> 
GBY>> "Microsoft Threatens to Stop
GBY>>                 Hebrew Language Conversion of
GBY>>                 Windows Operating System "
GBY>> (from Globes on line)

Good thing. Now if you only had decent Hebrew support on Linux - imagine
what a push it would be to Linux - just say "Microsoft is going to abandon
you, and Linux is your friend forever" :)

GBY>> what do they want? to stop israeli resselers from selling
GBY>> "naked" machines without OSes, say that all those machines end
GBY>> up with pirated m$ software. (well they dont exactly say it

As if local resellers could allow to buy per-processor licenses. Nobody
wants to pay for Windows if he can copy it from friend. So or you hide the
price inside other components (and lose price advantage to those who
doesn't), or you start to put it in the price list - and hear "well, this
one I don't need, drop it" from customers.

GBY>> If they succeed, god forbid, we'll be like the US were its
GBY>> VERY HARD to buy a computer with out WIndows, especially
GBY>> laptops.

I'm not sure it's really so. You can't buy Compaq or Dell without windows
- so what? Go to the local "Itsik Machshevim" (or "Jonny Computers" there
across the ocean) and get it. And even with compaq it's not true - if you
are sufficently rich client (like corporation or government), you can get
computer with whatever system you want for you money.

With laptops it's fact even here, moreover - I once had laptop with
windows screwed itself badly - it was impossible to repair it, since it
was some "OEM version" of windows, CD of which was, naturally, lost long
ago, and usual Windows CD refused to install over it.

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