[LUAU] Ubuntu... Legalities

[Jim Thompson]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Tim Newsham wrote:

>>> If you had a choice to buy gas for $3.35/gallon right down the  
>>> street on King Street or drive to Millilani (if you live in town)  
>>> and pay $3.09/gallon, where would you most like fuel up? A large  
>>> majority would go to the more expensive station out of convenience.
>>
>> I think you'll find they're "better off" paying the $3.35/gallon  
>> at the local station.
>
> You've just proved the validity of his analogy.  Now compute the  
> cost of installing your own codec versus buying a package with the  
> codec installed.  Be sure to include the value of your time.  You  
> definitely have to "drive" a lot further when you do it yourself.

I understood where he was driving, but his analogy was flawed.   Its  
not convenience that keeps people from driving to Mililani or Ewa to  
fill-up, and they're not paying for that convenience in his example,  
but they are when they buy Linspire or Minerva, or... Vista.

Jim