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Re: Suggestion for Breaking Microsoft's Monopoly
de Terry Russell 05/28/2006 02:14
"Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@ping.at> wrote in message
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> socrtwo wrote:
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>> It would be a good thing if Windows and Office became public property.
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> It is.
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> You just have to pay the ticket. Or do you drive with rail, sending
> Mail, speak by telephone and so on without paying?
One weeks groceries $A150.
Ask a farmer how much they make on that $8 pack of hamburger.
If food was free, everyone would eat government mandated
tasteless gruel :-)
For $A250 I can get a 1.8GHz P4 with XPPro...yet they sell the
_academic_ edition retail for $A100. Someones making a profit but
only a portion actually goes to MS.
The cost isn't in the software..unless you really need to
use a particular piece and insist on paying full retail.
socrtwo is right, it would be a very good thing for me
for about 3 minutes, then every PC would have Windows
and Office, and any possible development would rapidly dry up.