[SLUG] How come no OEM dual-boot machines?

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 18:30:50 EDT

Here's a link from another list that I thought very interesting when I
read the story.

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1115/byt20010824s0001/

The short version is that Microsoft's OEM license, which is confidential
and is labeled a "trade secret" prohibits OEMs from shipping dual boot
machines. If you're going to ship Windows, there can't be any other boot
options for other OSes.

Must be nice to be a monopoly.

Paul

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