$200 Linux PC at Walmart sells out

Re:$200 Linux PC at Walmart sells out by jetpack on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @01:35AM (#79091)

So you'd rather be using an inferior OS that has no competition and costs $400? Either that or you have a lot of MSFT stock.

The market will take care of itself. Windows is severely overpriced, and at least the low end PC market will most likely be taken over by Linux in the near future. An average OEM Windows license costs $40 I believe. That $40 (or less) may be the entire profit margin in a $200 PC. Microsoft's free ride on OEMs is finally coming to an end.

For the record I use all of the Big Three: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), and Mac. My personal opinion is that Mac OS X beats the other two hands down as a consumer desktop OS.

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Re:$200 Linux PC at Walmart sells out by mynameishere on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @10:54AM (#79278)

you'd

Where do I say "me"? To repeat myself:

ma, pa, uncle sam, and MegaCorp

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