Soleron said:
Yes, but what government would dare challenge one of their biggest sources of tax revenue? Microsoft already does it with normal PCs anyway: Example: Microsoft offers Windows for $100. They also offer a volume license deal where you pay them $50 per PC sold reagrdless of whether it has Windows or not. If the OEM declines the volume license, their Windows PCs cost $50 more than their competitors and they go out of business. If the OEM accepts the deal, every time they sell a Linux PC they are paying $50 for Windows. So the Linux PCs cost the same as (or because of economies of scale) more than the Windows PCs, despite Linux being free and Windows being $100 retail. It's a clever tactic on Microsoft's part.
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The government has already challenged them many times.
So yes. Yes they would.
