People, have you ever considered the possibility, when Microsoft will also start offering their Operating System for FREE, and only charge for the documentation!!!
Will you all then support MS 2000!!!!?
:)
Just remember, something like this under the hood. On a very recent Open Door road-show , while debating MS/Linux/Unix.. the same very possiblity was mentioned by the.. guess.. yes, MS people!!!
food for thought!
Does it not boil down to quantitative advantage(s)?
Think of a PC, as a product-mix: Hardware + Software -separating the two, and leaving the option in customers hands, is conducive to more competition, and resultant better quality and better price.
It sure leaves the onus of making a technical decision( choice of OS) in the customer's hands. I think most of the people can do that now.
The un-initiated ones will be , like always, left at the mercy of the big-company-with-big-marketing-dollars, or to blade of the salesman standing at the counter.
yes, "naked" PC is better.
Voltaire, " God is dead",
God, " Voltaire is dead".
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People, have you ever considered the possibility, when Microsoft will also start offering their Operating System for FREE, and only charge for the documentation!!!
:)
.. the same very possiblity was mentioned by the.. guess.. yes, MS people!!!
Will you all then support MS 2000!!!!?
Just remember, something like this under the hood. On a very recent Open Door road-show , while debating MS/Linux/Unix
food for thought!
Voltaire,"God is dead"
God,"Voltair is dead"
Does it not boil down to quantitative advantage(s)? Think of a PC, as a product-mix: Hardware + Software -separating the two, and leaving the option in customers hands, is conducive to more competition, and resultant better quality and better price.
It sure leaves the onus of making a technical decision( choice of OS) in the customer's hands. I think most of the people can do that now.
The un-initiated ones will be , like always, left at the mercy of the big-company-with-big-marketing-dollars, or to blade of the salesman standing at the counter.
yes, "naked" PC is better.
Voltaire, " God is dead",
God, " Voltaire is dead".