Words Of Wisdom on 20 October 2008
| Soleron said:
Case in point: You can't buy an OEM PC from any large vendor with a non-MS operating system that is cheaper than the same model with MS on it -even though e.g. Linux is free and Windows costs at least $50 to an OEM. |
Dell (the main provider of OEMs with Linux) includes support on all its products so if I were to guess at why the cost doesn't go down excluding the usual suspects (corporate greed/bribery), I'd have to say that it's likely due to needing to keep some people around who can support their linux product line (not that I'm really sure they do much of that anyway).
