Well, Windows is back on the disk.

[Richard Colbert Jr]

True, but the FOR COST *nix systems are for servers or your paying for
support (not the OS). Desktop *nix OS's are ALL FREE and as far as I know
this is not a SERVER ORIENTED LIST.

But I guess I should have clarified that a little better, huh?

 

 

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Richard Colbert

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-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of albi
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:20 PM
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: Re: Well, Windows is back on the disk.

Richard Colbert Jr wrote:

> Where in the heck did you get the idea that Windows was free with most
> computers? Windows is not free, it has never been free and it will never
be
> free. It may be INCLUDED with most computers, but I promise you pay for
it.
> The average price of a computer running WindowsXP Home is $89 higher than
> the same exact computer running any flavor of *nix. The average price of a
> computer running WindowsXP Professional is $179 higher than the same exact
> computer running any flavor of *nix. Now how is that freaking free?

agreed, (more people should be aware of the MicroSoft-Tax..)

however, "any flavor of *nix" should be "any flavor of open source
unix-alikes" (there is still "commercial *nix" around not costing $0)

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