I think the author means exactly what he says, which is that customers who want to
have Linux preloaded on these machines
must pay an additional fee of $20, whereas customers wanting an NT (or Win9x) preload
pay an additional fee of $0. Since
Dell doesn't market Optiplex systems without an OS, and since we don't know what M$
charges them per-machine for an
OEM license for NTW, its hard to say how much the customer is getting overcharged for
Linux. Safe to say not $200;
probably more on the order of $30-$50, since the official RedHat distribution with
docs would have cost them around $30 on
the street anyway.
The customer is only really out $200 in the unlikely event that after they get their
Linux machine, they decide they really
wanted NT all along and go out and spend $200 for a copy of NTW at CompUSA or
wherever. An awful thought...
--Kevin
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:57:48 -0500, Bob Easton wrote:
>
>On 23 Mar 99, at 21:43, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/delllinux.html
>> --
>Quoting from that article (about Dell preloading Linux):
>"In order to get Linux preinstalled on their machines, users
>must foot a $20 fee (which is $20 more than a system with
>Windows NT preinstalled)."
>Is this for real? They expect someone to pay, in effect, close
>to $200 for Linux? Maybe the author misspoke.
>-Bob
>
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