Comment by wmf
2 years ago
Wasn't this the one that was sabotaged by Microsoft so that BeOS was installed but you couldn't boot it? https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
2 years ago
Wasn't this the one that was sabotaged by Microsoft so that BeOS was installed but you couldn't boot it? https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
> fine print in their Microsoft Windows License agreements
They negotiated like trash and wanted to keep their margin.
IIRC those 'agreements' for larger vendors often included a per-unit discount compared to a mom and pop shop getting OEM licenses from a reseller.
And frankly at the time more were fearful as intel than microsoft...