The Qualcomm 'Tax' Rebellion (2017)
In a way it&#x27;s better than the Microsoft tax which set, for a time, a lower bound on the price of a computer because one had to pay approximately the same amount for a low-spec computer as for a high-spec one.  Eventually if you&#x27;re making 20% margin on the components and that margin is lower than the cost of the Windows license, you have two options: use an incompatible operating system or not sell the computer.  From what I understand, in the 80s and 90s, if you sold computers with Windows or DOS OEM, your license agreement probably said that you had to pay the tax on every system sold, regardless of the actually installed operating system.