Vlad wrote: > The fact that Walmart is intent on outdoing all of their competitors > by aggressively cutting costs wherever they can -- especially on this > model -- bodes well for LinuxBIOS. I'm sure Walmart would be ecstatic > to find out that they can save $15-$30 per board (7.5%-15% of the > total cost of the computer) by dropping the proprietary BIOS and using > the free/open-source LinuxBIOS.
I'm sure the BIOS vendor wished they were getting $15-$30 per license sticker/BIOS copy. They are in reality getting only <<$1 per copy of the closed source BIOS. Every penny saved does count in high volume. -Bari -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
