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Is Windows Worth $45?
bgelb writes "This article from the Wall Street Journal questions whether Microsoft really innovates enough to justify the enormous amount of money (nearly 10% of the cost of every PC!) it takes from consumers each year. Hard drive and chip makers innovate constantly, but what about Microsoft?"
Windows may not be worth $45, but Linux is certainly not even worth $0.00.
At least the "Filet Mignon" doesn't require you to do your own troubleshooting for every little fricken stupid setup operation, read five outdated documents written in "engineers-don't-know-how-to-effectively-write," Google both web pages and groups, troll IRC channels, all in the efforts of just getting it to recognize your video card so that you can actually view that p0rn you wanted to see five hours ago on DVD. Then you realize that you're breaking the law trying to watch the DVD and shoot yourself in the head.
No one complains about paying real money for things that cost real money to reproduce.
What is the cost of copying 650MB of data around? $45? Linux proves that it is close to $0.
Yours is the same old, broken thinking that makes people call sharing digital copies of music and video "stealing", when the original is left intact.
Should I be able to keep 4 cars, and pay for only 3? All arguments can sound nice, until someone thinks about what is being posed.