-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 04:20:52PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > Celejar wrote on Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:27 AM -0600: > > > That's what I never get about this whole business; I want them to do > > linux to *lower* the cost by the cost of the windows license. I > > suppose they're targeting people who want the convenience, not the > > cost saving. > > I think that's exactly right. > > > > I'd actually rather do the install myself, to customize it properly, > > so I suppose what I really want is a no OS box, cheaper by the cost > > of a Windows license from the equivalent Windows one. I believe that > > they offered no OS boxes (with FreeDos, IIRC) at least at one point, > > but I don't think they were cheaper than the Windows ones. > > Most people could not complete a Linux install without a phone call to > tech support. I suspect that's one part of the reason there are so > few no-OS boxes. When the install doesn't turn out right, their first > call is to the people who sold them the hardware, even though that's > the least likely place to have a problem. Technically sophisticated > users do not tend to do this, but that's a pretty small market. > the cost of dell (or other products) includes window support and payments from Microsoft and other software makers. This is almost the 'profit' to dell. With an o/s less computer, they would not get this 'profit' and would have to pay a high price to support the linux users. That would be a large enough amount that no one would want to adopt linux. Unless they said that you would not get any support and you'd have to pay for it from a 3rd party. - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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