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ed <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:53:25 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> __/ [ ed ] on Friday 22 September 2006 22:48 \__
>>
>> > On 22 Sep 2006 21:40:11 GMT
>> > Peter Hayes <not_in_use@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> In <20060922222238.78f0c767@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ed wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Has this been brought up before?
>> >> >
>> >> > If one in four people buy a copy of windows vista this is the
>> >amount > >
>> >> > of money that goes directly from the UK to the USA:
>> >> >
>> >> > UK Population 60,209,500 (Wikipedia)
>> >> > Vista 399 (USD)
>> >> > USD-GBP 0.53
>> >> > GBP 210.64
>> >> > Price after (-VAT) 32,615,802,345.40
>> >>
>> >> I doubt if one in a thousand will buy Vista retail, one in ten
>> >> thousand even.
>> >
>> > Well, companies *HAVE* to buy it, perhaps through OEM, but you get
>> > the point right?
>>
>> So Microsoft gets the dough while Brits get the pleasure of purging
>> viruses? Sounds cheeky...
>
> Not so much, imagine... every country has a certain grams of gold per
> person, if UK citizens are handing their gold to USA citizens, what gold
> do we get in return? the software, if one wishes to consider a part gold
> exchange, is going to vaporise in a few years...
>
> UK citizens eventually run out of gold, while the USA pockets all
> theirs.
>
Actually, if you look at the global economy, I think you'll find that
the US is in hock to the rest of the world by some huge amount. It's so
bad that ill's in the US economy were recently blamed on the /interest
rates/ of their loans.
That said, I've raised many times over the stark problem of paying
a foreign country huge sums of money which there is no need to do.
The calculation above is very interesting, 33 thousand million (US
billion) just for an /operating system/!
That kind of money could well be used to fix the NHS...
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