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____/ JeffM on Sunday 07 Mar 2010 00:39 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>|I find a site which advertises the price of the OS
>>|separate from the PC!. At the low end,
>>|Vista Ultimate costs 50% of the price of the box.
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> I recall when some academics advised the EU
> to mandate a la carte pricing on computers. Still waiting on that.
>
> With manufacturers at the low end
> learning that they don't need to pay the Intel Tax(tm) either
> (due to ARM), this may work itself out in that segment.
>
> Scanning down the list of items you included,
> Malaysia looks like a Shangri-La for Open Source.
Their government deploys FOSS (OO.org for starters), sometimes with GNU/Linux.
Malaysia was flagged by the MAFIAA (IIRC) for promoting Free software.
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