__/ [Paul Hovnanian P.E.] on Wednesday 19 October 2005 04:18 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/18/2036220&tid=109&tid=106
>>
>> "Outspoken IT consultant John H. Terpstra believes that Microsoft and
>> electronics manufacturers are working together to hinder the adoption of
>> Linux on the desktop. In a three part series, he tells a story about how
>> two guys trying to buy Linux desktops found they were overpriced, and
>> lacked certain tools. He then describes how Microsoft uses its
>> considerable resources and the law to create such roadblocks."
>>
>>
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1134910,00.htm
>>
>> In the article, I have collected some selected bits that appear to fit
>> with a recurring theme that we see:
>>
>> * Laptops whose price is actually lowered because of the inclusion of
>> Windows (I mentioned this before in the context of Dell, but it is not
>> only Dell)
>
> This by itself is quite interesting. I wonder if this could be the
> foundation for an anti product dumping lawsuit. Giving software away for
> free is (questionably) legal because the marginal cost of one additional
> copy of that s/w approaches zero. But I'd like to se the legal defense
> that it is negative.
Let me phrase this in a simple and easily-digestable form:
"Money is being spent on making FREE more expensive"
See the self-contradiction? Call it a loophole or call it failure of the
juridical system.
My modest take on the subject...
Roy
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