On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 11:57, Harsh R Busa wrote:
For your favortive OS You pay $100s for OS , $100s for dev tools, $1000s for databases, $100s for office tools, $1000s for servers. that too with restriction on num of users. how well does it talk to other OSes. and must we say anything abt security. ? then you pay huge sums for every release of ms product. then if u get a bug all u do for few mins is gaze at the beautiful screen .
then you buy an update that will cost u another $100's or so.
Well..what u say is very true...but do you think this actually counts as a factor, if you think in terms of the piracy rate. How many of those who buy a assembled PC, actually shell out extra money for the OS, the dev tools, databases, etc. How many of them have actually called up Microsoft for support, or upgraded software at a cost?
Ideally, it should work out like this..When selling a PC, the vendors should actually give them the choices they have in terms of operating systems, and then quote their prices (or the absence of it, in case of linux). When this does happen, I guess alternative operating systems, and I am not only talking of linux here, will be the norm.