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Re:Elon Musk: To the People of New Jersey by stcredzero on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:41PM (#7401705)
NPR said it was due to Ford and other auto makers back in the 1920-1930 bullying dealerships.

Why in heck do we let software companies bully OEMs?

Re:Elon Musk: To the People of New Jersey by Jtsummers on Friday March 14, 2014 @04:57PM (#7401818)
A large part of the MS anti-trust suit in the US was over the pressures they placed on OEMs. An example, BeOS was going to be licensed to Compaq. MS pressured them by threatening to raise the cost of OEM licensed copies of Windows, which would have severely eaten into the profit margin of an already narrow-marginned industry.