[Info-vax] Release of OpenVMS V9.2 for x86 Scheduled for July 14, 2022

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/12/2022 1:37 AM, John Wallace wrote:
> On 11/07/2022 21:25, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <tahokr$1ou3j$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>>> What BestBuy PoS X86 box, that won't carry Billy Tax, capable of 
>>>> running OpenVM
>>>> cost meS?
>>
>> Why does hardware without Windows installed have to pay anything to
>> MicroSoft?
> 
> Volume manufacturers of PCs have often been able to get significantly 
> cheaper MS licence prices by committing to install and ship Windows on 
> every "PC" they sell. If they don't do that, their overall cost of 
> Windows will increase (and maybe they'll get audited...).

> I don't know if this principle still applies, but it did when I followed 
> these things. It wasn't often talked about in public though.

The practice of charging PC manufacturers a license for all PC's sold
with or without DOS/Windows and the usage of a different prices
depending on whether PC's are sold with other OS as well supposedly
ended in 1994 with a voluntarily agreement that the following
year got approved the the supreme court.

Arne