Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media

["Walter Jowers" walter.jowers@xxxxxxxx]

I bought a perfectly good and useful PC from Transcend PC
(www.transcendpc.com), which they shipped with a barenaked hard drive and a
startup floppy. Not buying the OS saved me about a hundred bucks.

When I get my hands on a new computer, the first thing I do is wipe the hard
drive and do a custom install of the OS and other software. No trashware
that way.

Meanwhile, my neighbors (who are much more computer mainstream types) think
Bill Gates is personally putting icons in their system tray, without their
approval. I imagine the average DOJ lawyer thinks the same thing.

My next task: Use that swell 98Lite to skin back the OS on my laptop to a
mere 70 megs.

Walter Jowers, Nashville
E-mail: walter.jowers@xxxxxxxx
Biz website: http://www.nashscene.com/~housesense

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yo Intl." 
To: 
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media


> Harry Binswanger:
> >>If giving a near-monopoly on the operating system to a company that
wants to
> >>sell *applications* is such a great idea, how about 
> >
> >Guess who "gave" MS the "near-monopoly"? Users. By their purchases. It
was
> >not a Government 5-year Plan that did it. Nor can such a plan fix things.
>
> Uhh... you mean to say MS does *not* have contracts with manufacturers for
> installing their OS before shipping? You mean, we can go and by a PC
> *without* Windows installed? Can you tell us where?
>
>
>
> -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 
>
>