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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by jvm on Monday April 02, 2012 @02:20PM (#3789357)
> That said, I think Linux and all the other FOSS OSes and software keep costs down.

That's because they're free as in beer, not free as in speech.

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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by sirclueless on Monday April 02, 2012 @03:36PM (#3789697)
Perhaps the proximate cause of low Windows license cost is that there are alternatives that are free as in beer, but it's obvious to me at least that the only reason such "free as in beer" alternatives exist is because a lot of people work very hard to make sure that there are "free as in speech" implementations of fully fledged operating systems.
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