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Falling Hardware Prices Favor Linux
An anonymous reader sends us to a blog posting arguing that, as hardware prices fall below $250 for laptops and desktops, Linux should gain as the Microsoft tax stands out in sharper relief. "In previous years, if you were spending US$1500 and up on a laptop, the Microsoft tax you were paying didn't seem like such a big deal. XP or Vista was pre-installed, fairly convenient... But as the price of hardware for small basic machines comes down, (think under US$250 by the end of next year), then software price starts to become a big issue. Why would you pay the price of your new laptop again just for the software, when all you want to do is really basic things?"
This is one of thos cliche phrases that are, oh boy, so stupid, it's not funny anymore. i don't pay any MS tax! I GLADLY pay to use their products. Even if there are free ones. I like Windows (and am VERY PROUD of being a Windows user), I like programming for Windows, I love Visual studia and .NET. So I am a custommer not a tax payer. End of the story.
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
> and they have no aspirations to be master chefs. That's just as well, Halo 3 won't run on linu... oh.
I can has cannibilize U in So-viet Unyonz.
In Soviet Russia, articles before post read *you*!
So the true way to get Linux to the masses would be to write Linux crapware, and then pay the computer vendors to put that Linux crapware on Linux laptops?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.