A little addition.

----- Frederick Noronha fred@bytesforall.org wrote:

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=8226

That's because, according to a report by the Department of Government Commerce about Open Source Software Trials in Government, open source software has lower hardware requirements and needs less frequent hardware refreshes.

Not a unique feature of GNU/ Linux but because we have the freedom to tailor **our** OS as per our hardware. Maybe it is a feature we get with GNU GPL.

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The report continued: "Open Source operating systems such as Linux do not usually have the regular major upgrades that are a feature of Windows, and thus do not have the requirement that goes with these upgrades for a new or upgraded computer to run them."

It is pure economics. If MS aint selling software from where the money will come. Anyway MS need to **force** the users to upgrade (read as to force them to shell out money) somehow; and also create a monopoly.

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Greenpeace went on to argue that Microsoft should have considered this when producing its new OS.

So what do you want a poor bill?