In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:04:54 +0100
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg
>> <billw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:32:47 GMT
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>>>
>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:2019919.Ys0LZeIfOA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>> could this be proof that software is the most important part of a
>>>>> computer? it makes up >50% of the total cost in the last example.
>>>>> maybe bill gates was right!!
>>>>
>>>> Gates said that the cost of hardware would decline. Sadly, the
>>>> price of his software has only gone up. It's either greed or
>>>> the simply the advantage of suppressing all competition
>>>> (monopoly), which makes it an abuse of the market. If you need
>>>> good software, however, you must settle for the
>>>> best there is on the market...
>>>>
>>> You dweebs seem to be hung up on the cost of things rather than the
>>> value of things. Hardware has some value and software has some value.
>>> Do you think that the providers of this value do not merit their
>>> compensation? You are a bunch of freeloaders wishing and hoping and
>>> even insisting that your needs supersede all else. Good luck!
>>>
>>
>> Define "value".
>
> In Linux, it's val-you. To Microsoft, it's val-us. It's about the
> vendor, not the user/customer. WGA installtion, extortionate
> pricing, decisions arrogantly made on behalf of users, etc.
>
Heh! I like. :-) Unfortunately "valus" isn't a word;
among the dictionary suggestions are "valgus", an abnormal
outward turning of bone (or a certain bone), "vellus", the
fine hair present on the body before puberty (maybe that's
a hint the OS market's still immature?), or "walrus", a
large marine mammal (Odobenus rosmarus) of Arctic regions
(not quite a dinosaur, but pretty close. :-) )
But oh well. :-) Microsoft Windows isn't an OS, either. :-)
> Roy
>
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