The people I've heard from who complain about Linux not being preinstalled by OEMs aren't complaining about paying for Linux; they're complaining about paying for Windows.
As for your other comments, c has significance in special relativity aside from being the speed of light in vacuo. Also, do markets even have stable equilibria in the first place, never mind approaching or achieving them?
So when principles of micro texts discuss perfect competition and market equilibrium, they're only engaging in wishful thinking? Also, while open-source software fosters competition, it is not perfect competition. Advocates of open-source software might dispute the claim that software (as opposed to service) is/should be a commodity at all.
As for buyers being dissatisfied with market equilibrium, are you saying that people will object to paying $5 for Fedora Core 5 (or downloading it)? There is nonprice competition in Linux, from the corporate handholding of Redhat's and Novell's Enterprise offerings to cheap CD's to free downloads.
I don't see a whole lot of wishful thinking in economics.
What about the assumptions of perfect competition? How many industries satisfy them? What about the concept of market equilibrium? How long do markets stay in equilibrium?
My Averatec 3150H does not have distinct PgUp/PgDn keys (they require Fn plus up (or down) arrow). And what is Forward Delete? I can't find it on my regular keyboard.
And what Windows command must one execute to make the Linux partition accessible? And how many Windows machines are capable of supporting ext2fs (I suspect this isn't out of the box)?
And how does Windows access my Linux files? I have a dual-boot laptop (SUSE 10.0/Microsoft XP Home). When I run XP, how does it find files in my Linux partition? Does it scan my network for other Linux machines? How does it get permission to edit files? Can Windows XP even deal with reiserfs?
And do the people of Minnesota need all of Microsoft Office's feature set? And how was ODF supposed to geared to Microsoft Office's codebase when that codebase was closed?
I've heard of a conversation between a ranking German official and a ranking Swiss official during WWII. The German asked the Swiss how many men the Swiss could mobilize if Switzerland were invaded, and the Swiss replied one million. The German countered by saying that Germany could send two million soldiers against Switzerland, to which the Swiss official responded "In that case, each of our men would have to shoot twice.".
Besides, who'd be crazy enough to invade a country that has their secret bank accounts?
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The people I've heard from who complain about Linux not being preinstalled by OEMs aren't complaining about paying for Linux; they're complaining about paying for Windows.
As for your other comments, c has significance in special relativity aside from being the speed of light in vacuo. Also, do markets even have stable equilibria in the first place, never mind approaching or achieving them?
So when principles of micro texts discuss perfect competition and market equilibrium, they're only engaging in wishful thinking? Also, while open-source software fosters competition, it is not perfect competition. Advocates of open-source software might dispute the claim that software (as opposed to service) is/should be a commodity at all.
As for buyers being dissatisfied with market equilibrium, are you saying that people will object to paying $5 for Fedora Core 5 (or downloading it)? There is nonprice competition in Linux, from the corporate handholding of Redhat's and Novell's Enterprise offerings to cheap CD's to free downloads.
The foot was standardized on Henry VIII's foot, and the inch his (someone's) thumb.
I don't see a whole lot of wishful thinking in economics.
What about the assumptions of perfect competition? How many industries satisfy them? What about the concept of market equilibrium? How long do markets stay in equilibrium?
My Averatec 3150H does not have distinct PgUp/PgDn keys (they require Fn plus up (or down) arrow). And what is Forward Delete? I can't find it on my regular keyboard.
I bought my laptop new in 2004.
And what Windows command must one execute to make the Linux partition accessible? And how many Windows machines are capable of supporting ext2fs (I suspect this isn't out of the box)?
But the first "g" is more pronounced than the "t". Why don't people spell it "morgage"?
Windows developers are Microsoft's worst enemy
Except when Microsoft Windows® advocates point out how many applications are available for Microsoft Windows®.
Hmm. . . I can install Linux games as root in system directories, but still play as a regular user (Railroad Tycoon II rules!).
So Windows has support for ext3/reiserfs? Indeed, how does it get access to Linux directories at all?
And how does Windows access my Linux files? I have a dual-boot laptop (SUSE 10.0/Microsoft XP Home). When I run XP, how does it find files in my Linux partition? Does it scan my network for other Linux machines? How does it get permission to edit files? Can Windows XP even deal with reiserfs?
Causes TCP to be enabled on the server to which hosts?
And perhaps implementers may presume that database administrators
have some sophistication.
Wouldn't that be the attacker's momentum, rather than mass?
And do the people of Minnesota need all of Microsoft Office's feature set? And how was ODF supposed to geared to Microsoft Office's codebase when that codebase was closed?
Being able to have different wallpapers on different desktops might be nice.
Could one use a USB optical drive, or are the USB drivers on the second disk?
$125 is about what the boxed version of Student/Teacher Office costs at Staples, so I'd guess that is not an OEM version.
when even the posts are repeated.
Can't you just put the update version in an other optical drive?
So by that criterion, the post to which his post was a response is also invalid.
By that reasoning, it's not possible to refute it until OS X becomes dominant.
Isn't that more than a year away?
The Flintstones? Though the movies were live action instead of cartoons.
I've heard of a conversation between a ranking German official and a ranking Swiss official during WWII. The German asked the Swiss how many men the Swiss could mobilize if Switzerland were invaded, and the Swiss replied one million. The German countered by saying that Germany could send two million soldiers against Switzerland, to which the Swiss official responded "In that case, each of our men would have to shoot twice.".
Besides, who'd be crazy enough to invade a country that has their secret bank accounts?
But that was a percentage royalty. What if Eolas demanded a per-copy fee, say $1.00 per copy?