On 5/13/2011 11:02 PM, Doug Winterburn wrote:

Problem is that PCs come with Windows and the built in bump in price
because of that. If I don't want Windows, but Linux instead, I still
have to pay for Windows.

Moreover, your PC comes with windows already installed. Go to best buy
and try to buy a PC with Linux installed. In the 90's I bought a PC
from Gateway and was running OS/2 on it. When the hard drive died the
first month, Gateway replaced the hard drive, and I they told me it
would come with windows installed on it. I told them I didn't want
windows installed on it, they said there was no choice. Indeed!

The result of this anti-competitive crap is everyone thinks they are
getting viruses when there horribly designed OS is what is kicking their
ass, over, and over and over.

Jack

If the PC manufacturer wants to provide me with
a Window-less PC and reduce the price accordingly, M$ threatens to take
them off their approved list and either not provide Windows for those
who want it or charge them much more for ever copy.



Capitalism only works well when competition thrives, and Microsoft is
a prime example of what happens when a corrupt, inept government
allows competition to wither on the vine.

You don't understand. Microsoft's biggest competitor is itself !

An operating system is not a consumable. If Microsoft did not come up
with a
new OS every few years, with desirable features that people would pay
for,
it's revenue stream would wither. Last I heard, they're still making
money.





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Jack
You Can't Fix Stupid, but You Can Vote it Out!
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