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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> $200 Asus EeePCs coming soon
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>> | Asustek announced it would be dropping prices on its already affordable
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>> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:
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> More of that $200 will be kept by Ausus than having to pay out
> Micoshaft with license fees.
There's hardly any of that. Software is becoming a commodity (software services
are not). Microsoft too learned to cope with this when it started giving
Windows and Office for free (or for $3). They are scared and baffled.
> Previously, in the hardware game, only micoshaft was winner
> because hardware can't work without software.
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> Now with Linux, the manufacturers are winners if they use
> Linux because all the income is theirs to keep.
The software side no longer forces people to buy high-end $700 PCs. Hardware
makers hate that too.
PC Makers Face Netbook Peril - Barron's
http://seekingalpha.com/article/103518-pc-makers-face-netbook-peril-barron-s
Using GNU/Linux, 'consumers' take back control from price-fixing conspiracies
(remember the class action against Vista '(in)capable')?
Microsoft considers Free software the biggest threat because it challenges the
whole way it has been doing business.
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~~ Best of wishes
"We should dedicate a cross-group team to come up with ways to leverage Windows
technically more."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
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