Your expense = my revenue
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| I was browsing somebody's third hand list of 25 bad things about
| vista compared to Linux...
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| [...]
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| On the personal level I know a CIO who got his company to buy tens
| of thousands of machines from Dell mainly because he admires both
| Bill Gates and Michael Dell for having made so much money and, in
| fact, brags about how much he's made holding shares in their companies.
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| [...]
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| Look at this from an American national economic perspective and
| you get an interesting question: would American GDP rise if
| customers got the same computing benefits for fewer dollars?
| -i.e. if Microsoft's desktop monopoly ended and their American
| pricing fell?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=803
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